The symptoms of PTSD
include hypervigilance, increased startle response, avoidance around any thoughts or feelings associated with the traumatic event, nightmares, dreams or feelings that the event is reoccurring, as well as acting out or behavior problems.
Not exact matches
If we're talking about PCOS and cortisol, I'll add that
hypervigilance is what I discuss in The Hormone Cure as the key reason for hormonal imbalance in women,
including the hormone issues linked to infertility.
For many people, the noticeable symptoms of being stressed out
include: numbness, hyperarousal,
hypervigilance, nightmares, flashbacks, helplessness and avoidance behavior.
Common symptoms of PTSD
include flashbacks, anxiety, depression, recurring nightmares, inner and external violence, no peace of mind, high levels of stress,
hypervigilance, fearful living, feeling disconnected, misunderstood and alone, and having sleepless nights.
According to Sheri Brown Sizemore, author of To Love to Teach Again: 10 Secrets to Rekindling Passion to Keep You in the Classroom, symptoms
include anger, cynicism, anxiousness, avoidance, chronic exhaustion, disconnection, fear, guilt, hopelessness,
hypervigilance, inability to listen, loss of creativity, poor boundaries, poor self - care, and sleeplessness.
Symptoms of PTSD can
include the following: nightmares, flashbacks, emotional detachment or numbing of feelings (emotional self - mortification or dissociation), insomnia, avoidance of reminders and extreme distress when exposed to the reminders («triggers»), irritability,
hypervigilance, memory loss, and excessive startle response, clinical depression and anxiety, loss of appetite.
These problems
include attention deficit disorder; externalizing problems such as aggression, anger, conduct disorder, cruelty to animals, destructiveness, oppositional behavior and noncompliance, and drug and alcohol use; internalizing problems such as anxiety, depression, excessive clinging, fears, shyness, low self - esteem, passivity and withdrawal, self - blame, sadness, and suicidal tendencies; symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder such as flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety and
hypervigilance, sleep disturbances, numbing of affect, and guilt; separation anxiety; social behavior and competence problems such as poor problem - solving skills, low empathy, deficits in social skills, acceptance, and perpetration of violence in relationships; school problems such as poor academic performance, poor conduct, and truancy; somatic problems such as headaches, bedwetting, insomnia, and ulcers; and obsessive - compulsive disorder and other assorted temperamental difficulties.
Common adjustment reactions
included anxiety, depression,
hypervigilance and outrage, especially in response to denigration and expressions of hatred by their ex-wives.
Manifestations of hyperarousal
include physical and emotional hyperarousal and
hypervigilance.
This
includes discussion of how some «problematic» behaviors (i.e., aggression, mistrust, dissociation,
hypervigilance) may be rooted in trauma reactions.