Post traumatic stress Disorder

It is now well recognized that individuals may suffer from emotional reactions following traumatic experiences, such as recurrent nightmares, intrusive thoughts or memories of the incident. They may be accompanied by strong emotional reactions like fear, distress, grief and anger. Individuals with these reactions often try to avoid reminders of the incident and are unable to talk about their memories or feelings.

For most people these reactions are relatively short term, but for some, the reactions may persist and become seriously debilitating, a disorder known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

People with PTSD may withdraw from others, start to drink heavily or experience what seems like a personality change. All these problems can put a great strain on the person’s relationships and impair their ability to function at work and at home.

Firefighters are more likely to experience traumatic incidents than the general population, because that is the nature of the job, and although training may help firefighters to prepare for certain types of incidents it is extremely difficult to prepare anyone for the emotional reactions described above. However, it is now recognised that the sooner an individual is able to access help, after developing symptons of PTSD, the less likely they are to develop chronic long term problems, which could lead to medical retirement.

The personnel who were directly involved in a traumatic incident must be spoken to about their experience confidentlly. It is important that it should be done between 24 and 72 hours after a critical incident, whilst individuals’ memories and emotional reactions are still fresh.

ВАРИАНТ № 4

I. Перепишите предложения, подчеркните в каждом из них глaгол-сказуемое и определите его видо-временную форму и залог. Переведите предложения на русский язык. См. образец выполнения № 1.

1. People respond with “flight, fight or freeze” reaction during which they either approach the problem, run away from it, or just freeze to survive the threat.

2. This concept is often used to explain various social phenomena.

3. We live in a culture that has come to accept that aggression and violence can occur in almost all aspects of life.

4. The term “instinct” has been misused many times.

II. Перепишите следующие предложения, подчеркните Причастие I и Причастие II и установите функцию каждого из них, т.е. укажите, является ли оно определением, обстоятельством или частью сказуемого. См. образец выполнения № 2.

1. If we realize what our usual or preferred style of reaction is, then we will know our positives and negatives.

2. Konrad Lorenz has proposed that aggressive behavior is largely instinctual in all social species, including man.

3. Having looked through all the necessary material he started writing a report on the given problem.

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