HARVARD HEALTH PUBLISHING AND 3 MORE DOCTORS WEIGH IN ON: WHAT IS PTSD AND WHAT CAUSES IT?
Answered by Dr. Howard E. Lewine
M.D. Chief Medical Editor, Harvard Health Publishing · 40 years of experience · USA
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a severe and potentially debilitating mental health disorder that affects people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event. Many of these traumatic events are accidents (or near misses), injuries, or serious health issues. Other examples include the sudden death of a friend or loved one, or a national or global event like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Answered by Dr. Anuvitha Kamath
MBBS · 3 years of experience · India
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health condition that is triggered by either experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event in the past. The cause for developing this condition is inherited mental health risks such as a history of anxiety or depression in the family, lack of emotional support from family and friends, long history of intense mental trauma, and history of child abuse in a workplace which increases the exposure to trauma such as abuse, sexual harassment. People with this condition develop symptoms like suicidal tendencies, repeated nightmares, anxiety, and depression disorders, substance abuse, avoiding social life, sleeplessness, and negative thoughts about themselves and the world. In such cases, strong emotional support and good counseling will help them recover from it.
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Answered by Dr. Gustavo Campos
Doctor of Medicine · 9 years of experience · Brazil
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder. It happens as a result of coping with and adjusting to a terrible, often horrifying incident that one has experienced or witnessed. People might suffer from great anxiety by remembering the past in such a manner that it interferes with fundamental everyday functioning.
Answered by Dr. Jerry T Todd
Doctor of Medicine · 9 years of experience · USA
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a severe mental health disorder that develops after a distressing incident. It results in severe recurrent anxiety, intrusive thoughts, avoidance of similar situations, mood symptoms, and problems with thinking.
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