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Sidear: Common PTSD Symptoms
Pennsylvania Ag Connection - 02/19/2018

After a traumatic event, most people get better in time.

The National Center for PTSD suggests seeking help if symptoms like these last longer than three months, cause great distress or interrupt work/home life:

- Nightmares

- Increased heart rate

- Flashbacks

- Staying away from places that may remind you of the trauma

- Avoiding large crowds

- Trouble concentrating

- Difficulty sleeping

- Feeling alienated or emotionally isolated

- Hypervigilance or feeling "on guard" all the time???????

- Anger

While women have more PTSD than men in terms of the general population, she adds, the majority of people who experience trauma do not develop PTSD.

Although trauma survivors may experience some symptoms of PTSD, in most cases they dissipate over time, Foa says, adding that people can experience symptoms here and there, but these feelings do not interfere with their daily lives.

If the symptoms are interrupting one's work or home life, cause great distress or last longer than three months, the National Center for PTSD suggests seeking help.

The Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the Penn Department of Psychiatry offers treatment for PTSD and other anxiety-related disorders.

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