Have you lived through a scary or dangerous event? Do you’ve a few of the following problems?

•Feeling like the event is happening again

•Trouble sleeping or nightmares

•Not feeling about people

•Becoming easy angered

•Feeling guilty because other people died when you lived

If so, you might have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Events that might cause PTSD include rape, physical abuse, an airplane or car smash, war or others. For almost people, PTSD starts about 3 months later the event. However, some of the times signs of PTSD show up years after. PTSD can happen to anybody, even kids. And, know this you’re not alone. 5.2 million Americans have PTSD.

If you’ve PTSD, you often have nightmares or scary ideas about the experience you went through. You try to stay away from anything that reminds you of your experience. You may feel angry and unable to believe or care about others. You may forever get on the lookout for danger. You can feel very upset when something occurs suddenly or without warning.

The symptoms of PTSD fall into 3 broad types: re-living, avoidance and increased arousal.

1. Symptoms of re-living include flashbacks, nightmares, and extreme emotional and physical reactions to reminders of the event. Emotional reactions can include feeling shamed, extreme fear of harm, and numbing of emotions. Physical reactions can include uncontrollable shaking, chills or heart palpitations, and tension headaches.

2. Symptoms of avoidance include staying away from actions, places, ideas, or feelings related to the trauma or feeling detached or estranged from others.

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Mental health is influenced by human factors, internal and external. Both affect each other and can cause a mental illness so that it can cause mental disturbance.

A. Internal factors

Internal factor is the factor that comes from someone like character, talent, descent and so. For examples good, crabbed, jealous, jealous, shy, intrepid, and so. Examples of talent such as talent to paint, acting, and others. While descendants aspects like descendants of the emotions, intellectual, self potential, and so on.

B. External factors

External factors are factors that are outside ourselves that can affect someone’s mental. External environment that most closely with a human family like a parent, child, wife, sister, brother, grandfather, grandmother, and many more.

Other outside factors that influence such as the legal, political, social, cultural, religious, government, education, employment, community, and so. The good external factors that can maintain someone’s good mental, but the external factors that bad / not good is also potential to be the cause of mental illness.