Child and Youth Worker SSW206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, Lifesaving
30 Jan 2020
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Trauma 101: post-traumatic stress (disorder, a natural response to the experience of trauma that becomes disordered . It was unexpected: the person was unprepared, the person was unable to stop it from happening. On average, 70% of youth meet criteria for a mental health disorder with approximately. In addition to the fight/flight/freeze response, the autonomic system controls every other system of your body and their relationship with one another. It may take time for the body to return to normal after a traumatic event as our body may still be trying to enter fight, flight or freeze mode. It can also in contrast cause an individual to feel numb of emotion. Individuals can develop anxiety which can escalate to frequent panic attacks: feelings of hopeless and helplessness are common, anger, shame, guilt, self-hate, self-blame and fear are often experienced, depression both sadness and social withdrawal associated with depression.
