Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Nigro again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

As always, a pleasure speaking with you guys, responding to your emails, a lot of your feedback.

It's very encouraging. Like I said, I love doing this program.

So, as I've said in other programs, I do all these shows off the top of my head.

And I kind of decide during the week, like what I want to talk about.

This week's topic is PTSD PTSD post-traumatic stress disorders.

This is a disorder that is, one, very severe in terms of psychopatology.

Two, it's also a term that is, one very severe in terms of psychopathology.

Two, it's also a term that is misused and thrown around quite a bit.

Again, as I've said, you know, my job as a diagnostician is to adhere to the diagnostic criteria of the current DSM-5.

But trauma in and of itself is a very subjective experience.

Two people can witness the same event and have completely different interpretations of that event and how that event impacts them some may develop a trauma response others for a variety of reasons could be what's

called resiliency are not impacted by it and there's different

type not everybody who's sexually abused has PTSD not everybody who's verbally

abused who's emotionally abused who's physically abused it's really the diagnosis

is really the consolation of symptoms that a person experiences, persistent avoidance of stimuli that remind the person of the traumatic event.

Flashbacks, nightmares, something called hypervigilance, where you're constantly on guard for perceived threats to a sense of self.

But again, PTSD and trauma are different.

You can have a traumatic, like losing my father, that was a traumatic event, but I didn't have PTSD as a result of it.

Myself and Julie, we work with a lot of people who really struggle and suffer with PTSD.

And in the vast majority of cases, rarely, rarely, rarely isn't ever just just PTSD there's generally going to be a mood

disorder along with it most common one depression and anxiety um as part of our defense mechanisms

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