When we're looking to identify the triggers in a counseling relationship, for me it's as simple as asking an individual to talk about when they've been most emotionally distressed. They'll ...

1. Overstimulation Overstimulation can be a PTSD trigger. When we’re traumatized, the "trauma app" in our brain tries to manage our stress by keeping our lives small, manageable, and predictable.

Signs of PTSD include avoidance of flashback-inducing triggers, intrusive memories that disrupt daily life or sleep patterns, unpredictable mood swings that seem to come out of nowhere ...

One treatment approach involves the slow, steady re-exposure of patients to their PTSD triggers.... Kyle was known to take veterans battling PTSD to the shooting range. [ABC News] As President ...

How does PTSD differ in the short term versus the long ... Symptoms may also involve sleep disturbances, as well as avoiding certain triggers or reminders of the event. One other important point ...

Tackling trauma's deadly hangover. As seen in Nature of Things doc PTSD: Beyond Trauma, it’s becoming clear the trauma that causes PTSD rewires the human brain, in some cases leaving a permanent ...

Appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show this week, the Spice Girl opened up about suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “I’ve been in therapy since my father got diagnosed with ...