The term for excessive watchfulness for threats or danger.
What is hypervigilance?
A person with drug and alcohol issues is more likely to have PTSD than the general population.
Choosing your behavior based on trying to escape particular thoughts, feelings, or things.
A traumatized person is likely to be diagnosed with PTSD after having symptoms for this amount of time.
This PTSD treatment is most similar to Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy for anxiety disorders.
The most commonly co-occuring disorder along with PTSD is
Hearing about a traumatic event cannot create PTSD symptoms; a person must experience the traumatic event first-hand in order to develop symptoms.
Memories of the traumatic event that can come back at any time.
Although many people tend to associate PTSD with war-related violence, it is actually this event which most often leads to a PTSD diagnosis.
The way you think about yourself and others changes because of the trauma.
The "gold standard" semi-structured diagnostic interview to assess PTSD.
What is the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)?