ORIGINS OF TRAUMA/PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that a person may develop after experiencing or merely witnessing an extreme or overwhelming traumatic event. More specifically, the trauma is an intensely stressful event during which a person suffers serious harm or comes close to suffering serious harm or death, or witnesses and event in which another person may have been killed, seriously injured or threatened. All of this may result in intense helplessness, or horror. Traumatic events include many of the following:
- Catastrophes
- Harmful and fatal accidents (car, plane, train)
- Natural disasters
- Terrorism
- Public Humiliation/Social Anxiety
- Performance anxiety
- Speech anxiety
- Violent attack
- Animal attack
- Assault
- Battery and domestic violence
- Rape
- Abuse*Please note, if the abuse occurred in childhood repeatedly, this may be a sign of
chronic PTSD or a dissociative disorder which requires a modified and extended
version of EMDR.- Mental
- Physical
- Sexual
- Verbal (i.e., sexual and/or violent content)
- War, battle, and combat
- Death
- Explosion
- Gunfire
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