PTSD

Rapid eye movement sleep may be just what the doctor orders for people with posttraumatic stress syndrome, according to a new study from the University of California at Berkeley. The problem is that the symptoms of posttraumatic stress syndrome include nightmares, insomnia, and other sleep disturbances – meaning that victims are often naturally deprived of the very sleep that could cure their condition.

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The benefits of exercise may have more reason to be sung after research reveals that it can help patients with anxiety disorders to reduce their symptoms.

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Traumatic life events require a period of adjustment before one can resume daily activities. It is common, for example, for businesses to grant a three day bereavement leave when employees lose loved ones. If trauma is severe enough, however, the time needed to transition back to an everyday routine can be much more prolonged and even traumatic itself. Periods of recuperation from severe trauma may significantly interrupt work, intimacy, social interactions, financial security and healthy physical functioning.

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