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The post-traumatic stress syndrome is a shape of anxious trouble that follows a particularly traumatic event on the psychological plan: attempts, bombardments, serious accidents, disasters, physical violences, rapes,. What are its main symptoms? What treatments to propose? The person who presents the post-traumatic stress picture can be the victim herself of the event. She can be the witness of an accident occurred to a near, or of a disaster having concerned numerous victims. The picture presents itself back under the shape of a sort permanent of the event, as nightmares, or of invasion of the conscience among the awake subject, of frequent memories. These unrests often come with insomnias, of depression, of fretfulness, sometimes of violences or pathological conducts (alcoholism.). To the maximum they drag an important social désadaptation. The reasons and the evolution of the post-traumatic stress syndromeConfronted to the same traumatic event, some people don't undergo some of aftermaths and others develop a syndrome of stress post traumatic. One speaks of post-traumatic stress syndrome when the symptoms last more than one month (they often start several weeks after the event). The length of the unrests can limit itself to some months, or on the contrary hard longer or even to become chronic. The treatment of the post-traumatic stress syndromeIt is often difficult. Some medicines are useful to treat the symptoms as depression (antidepressants) or anxiety (anxiolytiques). But the treatment of bottom generally rests on the psychotherapy, either analytic inspiration psychotherapy, either psychotherapy comportementale. The support of the family and the near is important but the recourse to a specialized therapist is often necessary. 2010-09-29
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