Diagnosis: PTSD. The psychologist cites the five most common symptoms of a disorder relevant during the war

For more than six months of war, they have significantly affected the psychological state of compatriots - through active fighting, loss of loved ones and homes, experience of life under fire and occupation, many Ukrainians are now suffering from post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Moreover, as psychologists emphasize, its victims can become both military, who have passed the most severe battles in the collision line and civilians in relatively peaceful territories.

Video of the Day "This is always about a certain number of symptoms in people who have been injured in general," says military psychologist Alexei Karachinsky. "They cannot function as before and all the time they return at the moment they have experienced. " With the help of the NB expert, he identified the five most common symptoms that indicate the development of PTSD and can be signals for seeking help. 1.

Flashbeca is one of the symptoms of recurrence, sometimes called recurrent memories - when a person not only remembers a traumatic event, but also experiences emotions at that time. "For example, when I go to bed, I close my eyes and scroll through how my friend or night in the basement was killed," Karachinsky says. - But the question is not how often these flashbecks arise, but that you can't get rid of them, even if you want. " 2.

Triggers with a bright PTSD marker are also the presence of triggers - certain events that cause a person a sudden repental experience of past injury. According to experts, they can often be quite household situations that cause at first glance an unjustifiably acute reaction. Moreover, both on what is seen or heard, and physically felt. "For example, I hear a loud sound and the body responds to explosions.

Or I go to bed, I hear the sounds of the car and interpret them as a technique that goes to kill me. It can also look like a helicopter or a shudder, - the psychologist explains. "All these events are interpreted by a person with PTSD as danger signals. " 3. Night horrors of the third of the symptoms of a recurrence of injury are manifested in sleep disorders: night horrors with a rather realistic picture, emotional experiences and an accelerated heartbeat.

"For example, when a person sees in a dream, the filtration camps pass again, how they bomb her city, or how it escapes again," Karachinsky lists. 4. Avoid and numbered a sure sign of the development of post-traumatic disorder is a typical situation where a person avoids the space where the injury was performed. "For example, he is afraid to go home to a de -industrial city," explains the military psychologist.

- Or the situation: I was killed by a friend, with a friend we went to the mountains, now I go to the mountains or not want to go. " 5. Excessive sensitivity This symptom manifests itself in the inability of a person to relax, the feeling of "spring" and in the emergence of difficulties with concentration. At the same time, a person with PTSD feels hypersensitivity to sounds, a constant state of readiness to danger and sensitivity to manifestations of justice in everyday life.