Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-traumatic stress is often the result of a physically or emotionally traumatic experience, where the person experienced harm, saw others experience harm, or felt threatened (such as rape, child abuse, war, being in a concentration camp or natural disaster).

This event is relived through persistent frightening thoughts, flashbacks, dreams and memories.

People with PTSD often express considerable anger or are irritable, and they may become withdrawn or emotionally distant, and avoid any event that reminds them of the trauma.

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The Brain Health Centre at Baycrest specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mood and related disorders. For more information about the clinics in our Brain Health Centre, please click here.