What are the core symptoms of PTSD?

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Post traumatic stress disorder is also known as PTSD in clinic. Literally, we can understand that the occurrence of this disease is formed after the patient has been seriously hit. In fact, this is a very common psychological disease in clinic. Some patients with mild illness have no great impact on their daily life, but some patients are suffering from severe blows. The behavior, character and thought of patients will change in varying degrees, and some patients will have the tendency of self mutilation and suicide. So, what are the clinical symptoms of patients with PTSD? Today, let's follow me to learn something about PTSD.

What are the core symptoms of PTSD?

According to the course of disease, PTSD can be divided into acute type, chronic type and delayed type. The course of acute type patients is within three months, while the course of chronic type patients reaches three months or more. When the patients are injured for more than six months, the corresponding symptoms appear, which is called delayed onset. When patients encounter trauma events, they will repeat trauma events, and there will be some typical performance.

Clinically, it is found that most patients with post-traumatic stress disorder are difficult to concentrate. When they encounter similar occasions or scenes, there will be obvious physiological reactions such as rapid heartbeat, pale face and so on. Many patients will have insomnia, or easy to wake up in sleep, and some patients have illusion or fantasy. These conditions seriously affect the daily life of patients, and have an inestimable impact on the growth of some teenagers. At present, many patients with post-traumatic stress reaction are accompanied with certain symptoms of depression, therefore, we must treat the disease in time to prevent patients from suicidal, self mutilating and self abusive tendencies.

At present, the most common treatment for PTSD is the combination of psychotherapy and drug therapy. At present, we have seen a lot of reports on psychotherapy, and now there are many ways of psychotherapy, mainly to carry out psychological counseling for patients through communication and encouragement. At present, anticonvulsant and antidepressant drugs are used to control the patients' condition. Of course, in addition to treatment, the family members of patients should often encourage patients, and always pay attention to their corresponding emotional changes.

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Whether it's PTSD or depression, it's a kind of psychological disease. With the psychological changes of the patients, the condition will gradually change. When it's serious, the thinking of the patients will become very slow. Sometimes it takes a long time to answer the questions. And when the condition of PTSD is serious, there is no consciousness disorder at all, They will enter their own world, unable to communicate with normal people.