Posttraumatic stress disorder

             Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), symptoms that may follow deeply disturbing events; symptoms include reliving the event, difficulty in concentrating, sleep disturbances, anxiety, and guilt. PTSD is known to effect all people who have experienced an event that greatly exceeds anything they are accustomed to. Such events, fire that one narrowly escapes or something broader like the infamous 9/11 tragedy, leave people with a lasting impressions that effect their everyday lifestyles and how they function from day-to-day. People who, when they realize what has occurred, cannot and will not be able to continue with their lives without psychological assistance and help from those close to them. Can the way women think affect their tendency to become depressed? Researchers believe women's ruminative thinking style may be the key to explaining why, from early adolescence on, they are more likely than men to report being depressed or to be diagnosed with depression.
             Psychology, the Science of behavior and mental process, has many diverse areas. All of these areas help give us a more complete and understanding on how the mind works. They also offer a mirror image of just how complex and sophisticated the mind really is and how we still have much to learn. Using what we've learned from research and studies has exposed the numerous psychological disorders that exist in various subjects. Many disorders that we see in movies and hear about are extreme cases that most of us will never witness in another person, much suffer from. However, there are many illnesses that many of us can and will suffer from in the course of our lifetime. One of these illnesses effect more people than we may actually know about. An illness that symptoms that may follow deeply disturbing events; symptoms include reliving the event, difficulty in concentrating, sleep disturbances, anxiety, and guilt. PTSD is known to effect Can the way women ...

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