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- 1. Working Through the Past This a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a psychological ailment. For questions about this blog project or its content please email the teacher, Laura Astorian: laura.astorian@cobbk12.org
- 2. What is PTSD? An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety and insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
- 3. Who could get PTSD? Anyone could but the following people commonly do have PTSD Combat veterans accident and disaster survivors sexual assault victims prostitutes
- 4. Characteristics Haunting memories Social Withdrawal Jumpy Anxiety Insomnia
- 5. More Characteristics Excessive Sweating Helplessness Trust issues Nightmares
- 6. Explanation Brain stem or reptilian part of brain (controls survival and instincts) takes over Amygdala overstimulated Hippocampus less active Sympathetic Nervous system stays highly activated
- 7. Treatments Cognitive Therapy Exposure Therapy Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
- 8. Medications Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Antidepressant- less sad/ worried Raise serotonin levels Celexa, Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft
- 9. Facts 15% of all Vietnam veterans reported PTSD symptoms 1 in 6 in Iraq war reported symptoms of PTSD PTSD rates vary from 4% in natural disaster and 50% of those kidnapped, held captive, or raped Psychologists say it is overdiagnosed
- 10. Famous People with PTSD Whoopi Goldberg Monica Seles Mick Jagger Darrell Hammond Barbra Streisand
- 11. PTSD in Children 5.5 million children report PTSD Girls are more likely to have PTSD- 15%of girls and 6% of boys Children 5-12= incorporate trauma into daily lives yet unlikely to remember flashbacks Children 12- 18= normally aggressive and impulsive behavioural symptoms Play Therapy common for Children
- 12. How I Feel A normal day can turn into a day full of anxiety.
- 13. I begin to sweat uncontrollably while thoughts flow through my head without ceasing.
- 14. For me, I feel like the past will never just be my past and not my present, and I want to move on.
- 15. I feel like I should have let my feeling out sooner and not held them in to take control of me.
- 16. I feel as though no one understands what I am going through.
- 17. I can trust no one with my feelings because I could get more hurt.
- 18. I do not want to be around anyone, I would rather remain in solitude.
- 19. I want everything to end and for my life to go back to normal before my past. But…. I know what I have to do.
- 20. Quotes by those with PTSD “When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help.” “The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.” “In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.”