Depression Associated with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder involves four areas of symptoms: intrusions (unbidden thoughts, feelings and likely flashbacks); avoidance (staying away from places, people, sounds – anything that constitutes a “trigger”); alterations in arousal (exaggerated startle response, quick to anger) and negative alterations to thoughts and emotions (blaming others and yourself for what happened, feeling guilty you survived while others did not, hopelessness, no sense of future). In other words, depression. While PTSD is medically categorized as an anxiety disorder, it also manifests itself as depression. People with PTSD have a lot to overcome with depression being just one challenge.

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