Have you ever heard of Posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD well if you want to know more about it, keep reading. 

So Posttraumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric disorder that may occur to someone who experienced or saw a traumatic event, it can be any type of event. It can happen in all people and it is estimated that one of eleven people will be diagnosed with PTSD during their life. 

Around World War 1 PTSD was called “shell shock” and after World War 2 “combat fatigue”. A lot of veterans are diagnosed with this because they have seen more than a lot of things that we are never going to see.

People with PTSD will have flashbacks, nightmares and may avoid situations related to the traumatic event even though the event has ended. They could also have a negative reaction to something as normal as a loud noise. There are four categories of symptoms of PTSD: intrusion, avoidance, alterations in cognition and mood and alterations in arousal and reactivity.

So if you have symptoms of PTSD go see if you could get treated for it so that your life can not be controlled by it anymore, so that you can live a normal life.