Am I At Risk?

Facts of PTSD focus primarily on the road the mind is afflicted with traumatic experiences. Upon facing overwhelming stress theorists speculate, your head is not able to process information and emotions in an ordinary way. It's as if the ideas and feelings during the time who gets PTSD? of the traumatic event take on a life in their own, later intruding into mind and causing distress.

Pre-traumatic psychological factors (for example, low selfesteem) may make this method worse (for example, low selfesteem could be reinforced by a brutal rape). Post-traumatic reactions by others (for example, a raped girl who's viewed by household as “dirty”) and from the self (for example, physical distress caused by thoughts of the rape) could also are likely involved in influencing whether such symptoms persist. It's hypothesized that just after successful reprocessing of the traumatic event(s) do PTSD symptoms lower.