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Posttraumatic stress disorder is reflected throughout the body, says expert

31/01/2013

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Effects can be seen in various organs and take time to manifest.
If discouragement exceed 15 days, is indicated to seek a psychologist or psychiatrist.
 
Tragic episodes that involve strong emotions, such as Kiss nightclub fire in Santa Maria (RS), which left 235 dead and 143 people hospitalized, can trigger not only immediate physical reactions such as risk of pneumonia and death, but also the psychic diseases medium and long term, such as depression and post-traumatic stress, which end with a reflection on the entire organism.

According to the expert in neuroscience at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a member of the Brazilian Association of Trauma (ABT) Carlos Alberto Franco, people who have survived an individual capacity to absorb and recover from the shock or grief.
 
How people deal with loss and grief is very individual, expert says (Photo: Felipe Dana / AP)
 
"Friends and family can also blame themselves unduly for not rescuing anyone. But the first instinct is that the brain has to leave the place, is instinctive. Once the danger passes, consciously, the person wants to know where the another, "explains Franco.

The way people deal with the loss varies with the profile and history of each, according to the expert. But it would be natural, in three months, start to realize it as something belonging to the past, although the discomfort is still present. In three to six months, the pain tends to lessen, but may take up to a year to return the individual to have energy to perform normal activities.

"In the case of a mother who loses a child, but one year does not mean anything. Might take up to ten years or more in the process of loss, because it is a void, something out of place, and life loses meaning and reference" highlights.

Franco says that a tragedy like the nightclub Kiss, in which there is an inversion of the natural expected - young people who died before their parents - can cause a lack of connection with the real world and bring family and friends to deny what happened , get depressed, have anxiety attacks and even think about dying.

"The post-traumatic stress can manifest itself in various ways: as rapid heartbeat, stomach problems, bowel, skin or other organs, fever, impaired concentration and memory, crying for any reason or inability to walk for some Local to remember that event, "said the expert.

According to him, if within 15 days or longer the person remains extremely discouraged, you should seek some kind of support, as a psychologist, psychiatrist, specialist in trauma, at least to undergo an assessment. The sooner this happens the better.

Additionally, there are "triggers" that can shoot and remit to the tragedy, such as photographs, personal belongings or the fourth person who died. This may occur even years later, and other events are also capable of bringing out those negative emotions.

"Of course it is very difficult to immediately avoid that. But, over time, can change the home run, the position of the furniture, the paintings. 'Cause every time parents entering the child's room, will revive the memory of the loss, keep the traumatic memory and tendency to depression. Ideally, the family understands that the memories of those gone is enough - no need to keep the child's pajamas to smell it, "he says.

According to Franco, these are the same recommendations that psychiatrists and psychologists tend to give to anyone who broke a relationship. And the signals that appear after a loss also may be similar to that of a war trauma.

"The more you caused is in the process of survival, the greater is the brand that is," he says.

The expert says that in the case of firefighters, police, doctors and volunteers, it is expected that they can maintain a level of balance that allows help to be objective and at the same time, without being cold.

Grief is not a disease
Psychiatrist Daniel Barros explains that grief is not a disease, it is a phenomenon of life, then there is no cure or specific treatment.

"There is something you can do to not feel that pain. Having assistance, support, attend, speak, everything helps. But there are people who would rather not discuss. What worries and what to be aware of is the evolution of this mourning" he says.

That's because, gradually, the loss is being digested, overcome, and then life goes on. Some people, however, can not, catch, and the pain does not go ever.
For pathological mourning, according to the doctor, you need medication, treatment and targeted therapies.


Source: G1 - News - The Well

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