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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder A Case Study

R. Ajitha Nancy Rani, V. Hemavathy

Abstract


Post traumatic stress disorder is a set of reaction to an extreme stressor such as intense fear, helplessness or horror that leads the individual to relieve the trauma. The disorder may occur at any age. Symptoms may begin within the first 3 months after the trauma, or there may be delay of several months or even years.
Objective To define post traumatic stress disorder, incidence, aetiology, symptoms, diagnostic evaluation, treatment, medical management.
Method Describing the symptomatology, aetiology of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Result Fifty-year-old female, presented with the history of losing his only son after the flood in Chennai on December 2015. She detached herself from others, unresponsiveness to the surrounding and finally diagnosed as post traumatic stress disorder and was treated for it.

Conclusion It is a neurotic disorder, associated with events that would be distressing, include family members in providing an effective care to the patient and to develop support and explore the emotional experience of client.


Keywords


post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma, neurotic disorder, emotional experience

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