Psychology Ptsd

Complex PTSD is defined as a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence, or serious injury.

What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), besides, it being something I’ve lived with for over 40 years now, it’s fear. When you experience something so traumatic like war, loss of a loved one, being attacked/raped, active shooter events, a car accident a fear response is embedded in your memory and “triggers” are created. You relive that experience over and over, especially if you experience a trigger like a similar smell, sound, sight, feeling (internal or external), or taste.

What makes me qualified to write this book? Simple. I have been in your shoes. I have experienced a great deal of trauma, many of the circumstances that you have previously dealt with, or those you are dealing with now. I have come through the dust. I have persevered. I am still standing here to tell my story and to tell how I healed from it.

This book provides a useful tool for examining the individuals with PTSD. The AS-PTSD scale can be used as a guideline for interviews of individuals with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of combat action in modern warfare that differs from traditional linear warfare.