PTSD

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

It is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after one has experienced emotional trauma involving a threat of injury or death.

Health care providers do not know why traumatic events can cause PTSD in some people but not others. Genes, emotions and family environment may also play a role. Emotional traumas of the past may increase the risk of this disorder after a recent traumatic event.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the change in the body's response to stressful circumstances. Normally, after the event the body recovers. Hormones and stress chemicals that the body releases stress due to such return to normal levels. For some reason, a person with PTSD, the body continues to secrete hormones and stress chemicals.