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PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Is it
“Disrupting Your Life”?

PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is beginning to affect a lot of people’s lives. If you are one of them, it more than likely is creating a disruption within your life. The first thing you may notice is feeling different than you were before the trauma. And if this is so, you’ve come to the right place.

After a traumatic experience life can become stressful experiencing things you do not understand like nightmares, insomnia, flashbacks, rage, emotional numbing, hyper-vigilance, hyper-arousal, depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and even avoidance.

Understanding PTSD

Understanding these PTSD symptoms can by it self give you comfort, knowing that you are not crazy. While each person experiences how they handle trauma differently, we all have a lot of similar symptoms while dealing with PTSD.

With PTSD becoming a global issue continuing to grow, it is exciting that there are more and more different avenues in how a person can eliminate it from there world. In my opinion the only ones not believing that, are those that have gone to medical school and found that until they do centuries of studies none of the real work matters to them.

To begin with the biggest issue with PTSD is that they call it a disorder, and I like to believe it as an injury, that is really no different than a cut outside of our bodies. Just like a physical cut recent research suggests that up to 90% of all cases are wholly treatable, a statistic not unlike any physical injury.  

I myself struggled with undiagnosed PTSD for 36 years — and when I discovered how it disrupted my life I searched everywhere for a way to eliminate it from my life. Today, I am 90% PTSD-free. Only discovering things once in awhile that I just simply eliminate instead of hold on to thinking I am a victim of them.

This site is designed to educate you about PTSD, along with helping you access a path to your own elimination of PTSD. So the first thing is to understand what is PTSD… What is PTSD?

PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Question – So what does that mean?

Answer – Glad you asked PTSD really is an anxiety disorder that usually occurs after having been through some sort of traumatic event.

Question – So you may ask what is a traumatic event?

Answer – It’s anything that in your own mind is horrible or scary that either you witness or that it happened to you.

PTSD Facts:

  • It is estimated that on average 4 out of every 1000 soldiers in World War I had PTSD, while 31% of Vietnam vets had major symptoms of PTSD.
  • Ten to 30% of car accident victims will develop PTSD.
  • Trauma may be physical, psychological, or a combination of both.
  • 17,000,000 people from the U.S. experience traumatic events each year, and on average one in every 4 of them will develop PTSD.
  • 40% of Americans under the age of 30 will experience trauma -  Out of that 40% one in every four of them will develop PTSD.
  • An estimated 5 percent of Americans—more than 13 million people—have PTSD at any given time.
  • Women are twice as likely to develop PTSD as studies show that it is estimated that 1 out of 10 women will get PTSD at some time in their lives.
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