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“Time heal each and every pain” but in certain cases of traumatic experiences, even time fails to erase the bad memories. This is called as “post traumatic stress”. It is normal to feel frightened , anxious, sand and disconnected after a traumatic experience. But if with the time , it does not fade and the sense of danger and painful memories continues, it need to be treated with modern medicines and technologies. Modern technology and medical field had therefore helped “time” in one or another way to finally heal this pain also as like many other disorders and diseases. Life is to live with time and space. Time will heal your pain and space will give you the required room to move on with your life without any fear / stress.

In this article let us learn what is post traumatic stress disorder, its signs and symptoms in children and old aged persons, causes and risk factors and more importantly some very useful and innovative ways to fight successfully with PTSD.

If some unexpected event occurs in life which threatens your safety and makes you feel helpless, post traumatic stress disorder can develop in some of such cases. This is normal if it is faded with time . But in many cases, the fear continues. Many painful events which can lead to PTSD are road accident , Plane crashes, war, natural disaster, rape , kidnapping, sexual or physical abuse even childhood neglects can lead to PTSD. But it is always not that any response after such events is PTSD. Moreover it is normal reaction to fear after such incidences.The difference between normal response and PTSD is that PTSD is so overwhelming and disturbing that they would upset anyone else not associated with that incident or event. On the other hand to have bad dreams, find it difficult to stop thinking of what had happened and feel fearful is all normal reaction to the abnormal event.

Most common symptoms are trouble sleeping at night, and continuous feeling of irritation. Other common symptoms are feeling of intense distress when reminded of the trauma. Re-experiencing the traumatic event. Increased emotional arousal and anxiety. In such cases, even slight sense can trigger such bad feelings. Like an image, smell, some words, similar events. In many cases , loss of interest in life and all activities and feeling of detached from other. But this this disorders can be completely cured upto the extent that even if the same incident re-occurs with the patient , the impact is very less as compared to earlier post event symptoms.

In children s; especially young , the symptoms includes fear of being separated from parents, losing previously skill as acquired by elders, sleep problem, new phobias unrelated to trauma etc.
It is important to help any suspect of PTSD, a small support can help the patients a lot.

Early treatment is always better. The proper treatment for PTSD is always important. This treatment relieves symptoms that one experiences post trauma, in this case a small help is very useful for such patients. This small help can be a great trigger towards for his to make his life normal again. During the treatment, one will explore feeling and thoughts about the trauma. It will work to reduce the feeling of self-blame, guilt and mistrust. This will help to learn how to fight with and control bad memories. In totality the treatment is meant to solve the problems PTSD has been causing to patients life and its relationship with all others. The first attack is to neutralize the effect of incident in psychological way.

Apart from Psychological treatments, various scientific therapies can be worthy. The process of gradually exposing yourself to feelings, thoughts and situation that recalls you of the incident is called as “Trauma-focused cognitive – behavioral therapy ” This therapy involves identification of thoughts that upsets patients. Once this are identified, they are gradually replaced with more balanced pictures.
Making aware of what the patients is going through is equally important to get back his original feelings. This can be with the help of Family therapy. This includes everyone in family to communicate better and work jointly to resolve the syndrome. Many a times such therapy is supported with medications, this includes antidepressant drugs such as Prozac and other lie Zoloft. These drugs help to feel fresh and reduce worries but together with therapy can immediately help to treat the causes of PTSD.

Another important therapy is called as EMDR which is “Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing” in this, the eye movements and other forms of rhythmic movements are balanced to normal. This phenotype expression correction helps to quickly recover from PTSD. Such stimulation are thought to help by unfreezing the processing system of brain.

Apart from above therapies and medications, if we help the patients of PTSD morally, it will be a peace of mind for him and also his family members. Few tips which can really work as miracle are be patients and understanding, try to anticipate and prepare for such syndromes triggers, Don’t take these symptoms personally and get affected by it, don't pressurize your loved one in talking.

Therefore even though medications are useful to treat PTSD, but in such cases, understanding and love can serve as a divine medication for patients of PTSD. After all peaceful and happy mind is the healthy mind !