What You Need to Know About PTSD

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is caused by a traumatic event with symptoms occurring post incident. The person perceiving the traumatic incident views the event as dangerous, life threating or shocking. Usually, initial symptoms are anger, grumpy old man syndrome, loss of sleep and nightmares. Treatments for PTSD range from individual and group therapies to thought reduction therapy and medication. Even yoga, tension and trauma release exercises fall into the spectrum of holistic PTSD treatments. Also, it is recommended that patients refrain from alcohol use while being treated for PTSD. For more information, visit the National Center for PTSD website and the Military.com PTSD section.