What kinds of events cause PTSD?
Once called shell shock or battle fatigue, PTSD was first thought to affect only war veterans, but it is now realized that PTSD can be caused by any overpowering traumatic incident. These include car, ship, or train wrecks, airplane crashes, or collapse of a building, natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes, or earthquakes, personal violence such as a mugging, rape, kidnapping, or torture, or being trapped in a cave-in, an elevator, or held captive. The triggering event may be something that threatened the person’s life or the life of someone close to him or her. The original terms for PTSD were War Neurosis and Acute Stress Disorder. Other conditions closely related to PTSD that affect our bodies and psyches in similar ways are: Anxiety Disorder, Somatization Disorder, Severe Paroxysmal Hypertension, Pseudopheochromocytoma, non-epileptic attack disorder. All of these involve hidden emotional trauma, trauma that can be released with SHEN. What are some of the indicators of PTSD? Un
