Mental Health: Trauma: Types of Trauma: Complex Trauma: Prolonged or repeated exposure to traumatic events, often in childhood, leading to complex PTSD with additional symptoms like difficulty regulating emotions, distorted self-perception, and difficulty maintaining relationships.
Understanding Complex Trauma and Its Lasting Effects
Mental Health: Trauma: Types of Trauma: Acute Trauma: Single traumatic event, such as a car accident, natural disaster, or violent assault.
Acute trauma stems from a single distressing event.
Mental Health: Trauma: Types of Trauma: Vicarious Trauma: Experiencing trauma indirectly through exposure to others’ traumatic experiences, often affecting healthcare workers, therapists, or first responders.
Vicarious Trauma: The Impact of Indirect Exposure to Trauma
Mental Health: Anxiety Disorders: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Symptoms: Re-experiencing traumatic events (flashbacks, nightmares), avoidance of reminders of the trauma, negative changes in thoughts and mood (guilt, shame, detachment), hyperarousal (irritability, difficulty sleeping, startle response).
Understanding PTSD Symptoms: Re-experiencing and Avoidance
Mental Health: Anxiety Disorders: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Causes: Exposure to traumatic events such as war, accidents, violence, or abuse.
Understanding PTSD: Causes and Impact of Trauma Exposure
Mental Health: Anxiety Disorders: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Treatment: Therapy (trauma-focused CBT, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)), medication (antidepressants, anti-anxiety medication), support groups.
Exploring Effective Treatments for PTSD and Anxiety Disorders
Mental Health: Anxiety Disorders: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Common Compulsions: Washing and cleaning, checking, counting, ordering and arranging, hoarding, mental rituals.
Understanding Common Compulsions in OCD: A Brief Overview
