Have you ever been
asleep in your bed and you wake up with pain in your chest and anxiety from a
past event that traumatized you? Many people suffer from past events within
their lives and have haunting nightmares about it even years later. This
disorder is call Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder also known as PTSD.
This disorder brings
stress and anxieties to many different people in society. Whether the event
happened years ago or recent, the symptoms hardly ever stop. Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder occurs in some people that have experienced terrifying
experiences, such as a life- threatening attack or watching someone being
killed as it states in the book. In my opinion is sort of similar to
autobiographical syndrome. People remember the past like if it was real and
remember every little incident that occurred.
All people that have
experienced a horrible or major trauma usually endure Post- Traumatic Stress
Disorder. It was stated that most PTSD victims have a smaller than average
hippocampus. That is very interesting to me because the hippocampus is smaller
compared to average people. How can this be possible? The high cortisol levels
damage the hippocampus causing it to be small.
The majority of people
that suffer from Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder are people that went to war
and fought. It must be hard to be exposed to things that aren’t really normal
in society. To watch someone get killed in battle, a friend for an example is
traumatizing. Medication can help PTSD
people calm their anxiety, but does it really stop from remembering the times
of horror? My grandfather for example fought in WWII and till this day he will
not speak of it. He doesn’t take any medication but he will not speak of the
experiences he had to face in the war because it was hard for him.
Here is a video demonstrating PTSD more in depth of what it is.
