Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Teens

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after experiencing or witnessing a major trauma. Children and teens with PTSD can have a number of symptoms after a trauma that fall into three categories: 1. Reliving the trauma in some way.
2. Attempts to avoid anything that reminds the child or teen of the trauma.
3. Very high anxiety (also called "hyperarousal") and being easily startled. Children and teens with PTSD usually have some symptoms from each of these categories.

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[RefugePiano]

@KJT922010T Depends on the conditions in which your father died.

[rfl133]

@likewaterjkd more of a fear of not knowing if the air I am breathing is safe or deadly. I have since then moved out of that house and I have gotten better but still get some minor attacks every once in a while. I never thought I was going crazy, I felt like I was dying.

[likewaterjkd]

@rfl133 developed by your beleifs you formed of what was hapening to you perhaps fear of going crazy etc ? due to the gas being unknown

[thehouseofinfo]

There are way too many children who have seen and experienced trauma. We need to do a better job of protecting our children. Check out traumainchildhood.

[KJT922010T]

I saw my dad pass right in front of me and had to pick him up out of the bed and try and revive him while the EMTs were coming and didn't get PTSD. I was depressed about it but it's almost been 3 years and I try not to think about it. I know he is in a good place now and watching down over me and my family. I was 16 when it all happened. Is it normal to not get PTSD over a death? Or am I just diffrent?

[BecauseYouWatched]

@Lunadrake100 Quite similar. I was dumped and humiliated in front of all my friends, after it being revealed that she had cheated on me on three occassions - and then attacked with a knife by one of her friends who wanted in with her.

I went undiagnosed for three quarters of a year.

[rfl133]

I dealt with an un-detectable natural gas leak that got me to the E.R. twice. Took 3-4 months before it was discovered and by then my health was so bad I couldn't walk around the block. Now I think/hope I am recovering and am almost positive I got ptsd from it.

[MIK3Yproductionz]

@MrCombatveteran i commend you for your service. thank you, and im sorry for your pain.

[Lunadrake100]

I got PTSD as an eleven year old child after being violently bullied on a daily basis. It was left undiagnosed and ignored for six years. I stopped speaking much after the second year. I know for a fact that you get sicker as time passes, and it is the worst possible thing you can do to tell someone to get over it.

[carlyh2os100]

THIS HELPED ME UNDER STAND SOOOO MUCH BETTER!!! THANK U :)