Trauma / PTSD
Trauma / PTSD
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
All children may experience very stressful events that affect how they think and feel. Most of the time, children recover quickly and well. However, sometimes, children who experience severe stress, such as from an injury, the death or threatened death of a close family member or friend, or violence, will be affected in the long term.
The child could experience this trauma directly or could witness it happening to someone else. When children develop long-term symptoms (longer than one month) from such stress, which are upsetting or interfering with their relationships and activities, they may be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Examples of PTSD Symptoms
- Reliving the event over and over in thought or in play
- Nightmares and sleep problems
- Becoming very upset when something causes memories of the event
- Lack of positive emotions
- Intense ongoing fear or sadness
- Irritability and angry outbursts
- Constantly looking for possible threats, being easily startled
- Acting helpless, hopeless, or withdrawn
- Denying that the event happened or feeling numb
- Avoiding places or people associated with the event
Examples of Events That Could Cause PTSD
Because children who have experienced traumatic stress may seem restless, fidgety, or have trouble paying attention and staying organized, the symptoms of traumatic stress can be confused with symptoms of attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including:
- Physical, sexual, or emotional maltreatment
- Being a victim or witness to violence or crime
- Serious illness or death of a close family member or friend
- Natural or man-made disasters
- Severe car accidents
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