Explanations of PTSD focus mainly on the way the head is afflicted with traumatic experiences. Upon ...

1. Am I At Risk?
Explanations of PTSD focus mainly on the way the head is afflicted with traumatic experiences. Upon
experiencing overwhelming trauma theorists speculate, your brain is not able to process feelings
and data in a normal way. It is as if feelings and the thoughts during the time of the traumatic event
undertake a life of their own, later intruding into consciousness and causing distress.
Pre-traumatic psychological aspects (for example, low self-esteem) may make this method worse (for
example, low self-esteem maybe https://www.myptsd.com/am-i-at-risk-for-ptsd/266/ reinforced with a
brutal rape). Post-traumatic reactions by others (for example, a raped girl who's seen by household
as “dirty”) and from the self (for example, physical distress due to thoughts of the rape) may
also are likely involved in influencing whether such symptoms persist. It's hypothesized that only
after successful reprocessing of the traumatic event(s) do PTSD symptoms decrease.