Should PTSD get more attention from the health care department?

Imagine it’s a Monday morning. You’re out for a jog with your friends. The sky is clear and blue. The sun is shining, and it’s hot and dusty, but you and your buddies are cracking jokes. For once, you feel kind of relaxed.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a rash car diver hits your friend. You catch glimpses of the car driver from the corner. Your friend is hurt and screaming in pain.

You’re alive, unhurt. Your buddy has died.

As time progresses, you find that you can’t escape the experience. You’re haunted by your friend who died and the driver’s face. The still of the sunny day, one of the things that had calmed you just before the accident, come to be remembered as ominous.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, commonly referred to as PTSD, can affect anyone who has experienced or witnessed a traumatic event. Not everyone who experiences trauma will develop symptoms of PTSD. For those who do, the condition may be confusing and difficult to understand at first.

As many as 60% of all people will experience a traumatic event. Therefore a large number of the population is at risk for developing symptoms of PTSD.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder affects people at all stages of life, ability, and age. Having PTSD symptoms does not make someone weak. It is a common response to a life-threatening or otherwise traumatic event.

Three Things You Should Know about PTSD

· Eight percent of the population, or up to 8 out of every 100 people, will manifest PTSD symptoms at some point in life.

· Approximately eight million adults have PTSD during any given year.

· About 10% or 10 of every 100 women will manifest PTSD symptoms in their lifetime, a higher incidence than for men. Approximately 4 of every 100 men will have PTSD at some stage in life.

Our fear memories are among our most powerful. They can even become distorted and distort other memories associated with the experience. People with PTSD don’t wish to be reminded of them, and they don’t feel anyone can understand what they’ve gone through, which leads to a sense of isolation.

Physical wellness is so much underscored today that everybody is discussing it, and advisement can be found in each corner. For what reason is that the medical department doesn’t showcase counseling to be as cool as to get a kidney transplant?

Seeing this fuming number of people encountering a mental illness, its high time for the healthcare department to buckle up and do the needful.