Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a mental health disease that is caused by a traumatic event

Symptoms include:

Unwanted thoughts-this usually results in thinking about the traumatic event

Anxiety-fear that the event will occur again

Stress-when faced with reminders of the event it can cause you to relive the traumatic event

Treatments include:

Cognitive Processing Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Prolonged Therapy

Medications such as Sertralime, Paroxetine, Fluoxetine, and Venlafaxine

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