How do you know if you're suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? If you've suffered a traumatic event, ask yourself...

	Do you avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with a traumatic event?
	Do you avoid activities, places, or people that arouse recollections of the traumatic event?
	Do you find yourself unable to recall an important aspect of the traumatic event?
	Do you exhibit a markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities?
	Do you have feelings of detachment or estrangement from others?
	Do you have a restricted range of affect (e.g., unable to have loving feelings)
	Do you have a sense of a foreshortened future (e.g., do not expect to have a career, marriage, children or a normal life span).

The person suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has been exposed to a traumatic event in which...

	The person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others.
	The person's response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror.

This traumatic event or events is persistently re-experienced in one (or more) of the following ways:

	recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, or perceptions.
	recurrent distressing dreams of the event.
	acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations, and dissociate flashback episodes, including those that occur on awakening or when intoxicated.
	intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.
	physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event.