Are you simply unable to turn your brain off long enough at night to fall asleep, or are you waking up in the middle of the night due to nightmares? Disrupted sleep is normal, but severe trauma is not. If your condition is more prolonged than an occasional restless night, you may need...
are the innocent victims of others' misbehaviour are often angry, and this may be exacerbated by subsequent frustrations The term "acute stress disorder" is now used for a combination of distress, intrusive memories ...
Loss is traumatic when you’re a child, no matter what it is, but some losses are more traumatic than others. Children who have been exposed to significant trauma may have an even harder time dealing with grief than others. For example, if a child is a survivor while others died, s/he...
not just once but repeatedly. And your boyfriends treatment of you has triggered you causing flashbacks and nightmares. This is normal for someone who has experienced the type of trauma you have. We try to bury the memories but they never really go away and the trauma does change the way ...
In addition, 71% of snakebite victims reported “subjective psychological trauma”, defined as conscious avoidance of specific places or activities related to the snakebite, and/or frequent nightmares about the event. The qualitative phase of the SNAKO project, presented in this paper, was intended...
a workup aims to differentiate arousal disorders from seizures and other disorders they mimic, including panic attacks, posttraumatic stress disorder, and nightmares. timing is a robust clinical feature of arousal disorders, rosen noted. episodes usually occur about 60 to 90 minutes after sleep onset...