Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: The Invisible Injury - Softcover

Kinchin, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0952912112 ISBN 13: 9780952912118

Verlag: Success Unlimited, 1998

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David Kinchin is a former police officer who in 1990 found himself at the centre of a riot. He was lucky to survive. Having found little on the subject of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder he set about researching the disorder and made contact with fellow sufferers. This book (an updated version of the original published in 1994) is the result. Like many people who have suffered trauma, he has used his own horrific experience as the basis for helping others. He feels a deep sense of satisfaction from having been able to take the knowledge and insight from his own trauma and use it for the benefit of so many people.

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PTSD results when a person has been exposed to an event which is outside the range of normal human experience: an event which would markedly distress almost anyone. It is the normal human response to an abnormal situation. The experience could be a serious threat to life. It could be a serious threat or actual harm to one's children, partner or other close relative or friend. It could be the sudden destruction of one's home or community, or seeing another person who has recently been seriously injured or killed as the result of either an accident or physical violence.

PTSD goes further. The event only has to be perceived as traumatic by the victim. In reality the incident might not pose a serious threat to life, but if the incident is genuinely considered to be life-threatening, then the victim has experienced an event outside the range of normal human experience. More recent evidence has shown that PTSD can result from sexual abuse, and from bullying. If you are suffering from either PTSD or PDSD, you may feel alone, but you are not.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Success Unlimited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0952912112
• ISBN 13: 9780952912118
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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