Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Blogs

Explore the link between PTSD and social anxiety, understand their overlapping symptoms, and discover effective coping strategies.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. This condition is characterized by intense, disturbing thoughts and feelings related to the experience that last long after the traumatic event has ended. People with PTSD may relive the event through flashbacks or nightmares, feel sadness, fear, or […]

What distinguishes Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) from PTSD as two distinct PTS disorders from each other? Traumatic events (war, sexual or physical violence, terrorist attacks, torture, etc.) causing the traumatic events themselves are both mental disorders. In terms of symptoms, management, and underlying factors, they exhibit dissimilarities. Managing the variance between PTSD and C-PTSD and providing […]

According to the National Center for PTSD, about 6 percent of the US population develops PTSD at some time in their lives. People who develop PTSD after a traumatic event start experiencing symptoms such as flashbacks, avoidance of stimuli that remind them of the event, and mood changes. But aside from emotional symptoms, a pervasive […]

We often use terms like ‘emotional health’ and ‘mental health’ interchangeably. That’s because having a mental health condition affects both our mental and emotional health. Conditions like major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, which affect about 1 in 25 US adults, affect both emotional and mental health. But even though the two domains go hand […]