Freaky Green Eyes!!

 

Main Characters: Francesa/ Franky

• Reid Person/father
• Krista Coner/mother
• Samantha/younger sister
• Todd/step-brother
• Vicky/aunt and krista's older sister

Place: Seattle and Skagit Harbor
Time Frame: Months April 18-September 11

Characters: Franky shes is going through a hard and stressful times. Her parents are in a deep violent relationship.

Characters: Krista faces abuse mental and phyical from her own husband.

Characters: Reid hes a person with two personality, cant control his anger with his wife.

Treatment For PTSD

Treatments for PTSD usually include psychological and medical interventions. Providing information about the illness, helping the individual manage the trauma by talking about it directly, teaching the person ways to manage symptoms of PTSD

Treatments for Specific PTSD Populations

The best treatment for PTSD can depend on whether or not a person has other psychological difficulties or the type of traumatic event experienced that led to the PTSD. For this reason, specialized treatments for specific PTSD populations have also been developed. Some of these treatments are described here.

Psychological Treatment of PTSD

Psychological treatments, including both cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic treatments, have been found to be successful in helping people manage and reduce their PTSD symptoms. Here get the basics of cognitive-behavioral therapy and psychodynamic psychotherapy, as well as describe some of these treatments.

Medication for PTSD

In addition to psychological treatments for PTSD (for example, cognitive-behavioral therapy), medication has also been found to be useful in treating the symptoms of PTSD.

THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE | PTSD | Treatment | PBS

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

This syndrome has been used as an explanation for reactions to abusive situations in court cases but has also been used as an educational tool in order to raise the awareness of the impact that domestic violence can have on women.

When an individual receives a diagnosis of complex post traumatic stress disorder, he or she has suffered trauma over a prolonged period of time.

Complex post traumatic stress disorder often occurs when a person has experienced long-term, repeated, exposure to emotional or social traumas or abuse that lasts for months, and in some cases, years. This condition is also known as:

• C-PTSD
• Complex - PTSD
• Disorders of extreme stress
• Complex trauma
• Developmental trauma disorder
   

After a traumatic experience, it’s normal to feel frightened, sad, anxious, and disconnected.
 Usually, as time passes, the upset fades and you start to enjoy life again. But sometimes the trauma you experienced is so overwhelming that you find that you can’t move on. You feel stuck with painful memories that don’t fade and a constant sense of danger. If you went through a traumatic experience and are having trouble getting back to your regular life, reconnecting to others, and feeling safe again, you may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). When you have PTSD, it can seem like you’ll never get over what happened or feel normal again. But help is available.

Battered Woman Syndrome

Battered women stay in these dangerous relationships for a variety of reasons including:

still being positively reinforced by the "honeymoon" phase of the battering cycle
economic dependence upon the batterer
belief that they can keep the peace
fear of danger if she were to leave
threats made by the batterer to hurt her or her children if she left
loss of self-esteem
depression or loss of psychological energy necessary to leave

There are four general characteristics of the syndrome:

Guilt- believes that the violence was or is her fault.
Responsibility- woman has an inability to place responsibility for the violence elsewhere.
Enlightenment- fears for her life and/or her children's lives.
Denial- has an irrational belief that the abuser is omnipresent and omniscient.

More recently, Battered Woman Syndrome has also been associated with post-traumatic stress disorder  in that domestic violence involves exposure to severe trauma and so the reactions of a battered woman may be due to flashbacks or other intrusive experiences from previous traumatic events so that the woman believes that she is in danger, even if she is not.