Post Traumatic Stress Disorders: A Psychological Analysis
When two men experience the same traumatic event, it is probable that only one of those two will face post-traumatic stress disorder. Why is that? There is many factors that could influenced that, those include background and previous experience5. “Davidson et al. (2007) and Breslau et al. (1998) estimate that PTSD affects 15-24 per cent of individuals who are exposed to traumatic events. (…) PTSD is complicated by the fact that it frequently occurs in conjunction with related disorders such as depression, substance abuse, problems of memory and cognition, and other problems of physical and mental health. The disorder is also associated with impairment of the person’s ability to function in social or family life, including occupational instability,
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One of the definitions of resilience states that it is “the ability to maintain a normal state despite difficult circumstances”6. To be more exact, according to American Psychological Association it is “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of threat”7. It is really uncertain to call a person resilient. It is like that because an individual could be resilient in childhood years but could be not anymore while being an adult. Furthermore, such resiliency could be applied in only one part of life such as family relations but it doesn’t really has to apply in manner of employment (Masten, 2001, 2014)8. “According to Schoon et al. (2002), resilience should be seen as positive adaptation, despite the experience of risk, and not as personality attribute”. book Thus, it can be concluded that resilience could be studied and later taught to people who are unable to develop it by themselves. Previously mentioned action , if undertaken, would help scientists and psychiatrist to know more about the nature of such adaptation. Later on, that knowledge could probably decrease the number of people dealing with PTSD and other related disorders. Some scientist already thought about it and they focused their work on getting an insight into resilience. Lots of studies have shown that there are several factors which contribute to resiliency. According to …show more content…
They have to deal with their everyday life problems, even though the problems various across each individual; it all come to overcoming stress, dealing with some issues, and being strong. However most of the people will have to face some more serious problems such as traumatic events which may lead to trauma. Unfortunately some of those people with trauma problem, will develop post-traumatic stress disorder. Since not all of the people have an ability for the positive adaptation to trauma it is important to develop researches and general knowledge. Thanks to that we could help many individuals as well as their families. It is important for all of the people to know what they are dealing with, thus being able to help themselves as well as their friends and family members. Because of mine inability to help my close relatives I chose such an research question to explore it and have new, accessible knowledge for the
One of the definitions of resilience states that it is “the ability to maintain a normal state despite difficult circumstances”6. To be more exact, according to American Psychological Association it is “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of threat”7. It is really uncertain to call a person resilient. It is like that because an individual could be resilient in childhood years but could be not anymore while being an adult. Furthermore, such resiliency could be applied in only one part of life such as family relations but it doesn’t really has to apply in manner of employment (Masten, 2001, 2014)8. “According to Schoon et al. (2002), resilience should be seen as positive adaptation, despite the experience of risk, and not as personality attribute”. book Thus, it can be concluded that resilience could be studied and later taught to people who are unable to develop it by themselves. Previously mentioned action , if undertaken, would help scientists and psychiatrist to know more about the nature of such adaptation. Later on, that knowledge could probably decrease the number of people dealing with PTSD and other related disorders. Some scientist already thought about it and they focused their work on getting an insight into resilience. Lots of studies have shown that there are several factors which contribute to resiliency. According to …show more content…
They have to deal with their everyday life problems, even though the problems various across each individual; it all come to overcoming stress, dealing with some issues, and being strong. However most of the people will have to face some more serious problems such as traumatic events which may lead to trauma. Unfortunately some of those people with trauma problem, will develop post-traumatic stress disorder. Since not all of the people have an ability for the positive adaptation to trauma it is important to develop researches and general knowledge. Thanks to that we could help many individuals as well as their families. It is important for all of the people to know what they are dealing with, thus being able to help themselves as well as their friends and family members. Because of mine inability to help my close relatives I chose such an research question to explore it and have new, accessible knowledge for the