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Mhm . So with post traumatic stress

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disorder , there's really for what they

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call clusters of symptoms , kind of

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different types of symptoms that occur .

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Um , one is called re experiencing and

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basically it's as if you're body goes

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through a stress reaction that's not

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too different actually , that your body

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may have reacted that way when you are

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exposed to the trauma because because

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the brain has learned , there's

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triggers that go off . So there's

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what's called re experiencing symptoms

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of a heart rate may go up , blood

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pressure , may go up , may feel sick in

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your stomach . A lot of physical type

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symptoms we call those re experiencing

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symptoms , uh , that can occur .

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Another is avoidance , avoidance of the

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memories related to the event ,

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avoidance of events that may be trauma

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triggers something related to the

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trauma that occurred or maybe it just

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feels dangerous . So avoidance is

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something that is really common as well .

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Another common symptom or kind of

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thoughts and beliefs and cognition is

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that go along with thinking about the

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trauma , thinking about yourself ,

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thinking about the world and oftentimes

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person's perspective about themselves ,

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the world , the future has been changed

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based on the traumatic experience that

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they had . So that's another , another

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common symptom that people have and the

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other one is , is basically hyper

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arousal . So being really , really

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ramped up in a deployed setting ,

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people often are um , they need to be

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vigilant for example and that that

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means you're very careful

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hypervigilance is when , when that

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becomes over the top and people are

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overly cautious , overly reactive and

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even in a deployed setting , we don't

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want individuals hypervigilant , we

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want them vigilant . When people are

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hyper vigilant , you know , people can

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get injured , people can get killed .

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So , um , when you're no longer in a

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deployed setting , people have trouble

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turning that vigilance off and they're

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hypervigilance , they're looking for

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danger . They think there's danger

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around the corner when you were

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deployed , that may indeed have been

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the case , but in most settings where

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people are at , they still may be a bit

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vigilant , but the goal would be to not

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be hypervigilant because it's no longer

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serving the purpose that you had when

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you were deployed . A good example

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would be a car alarm that goes off um ,

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in a parking garage , when , you know ,

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a motorcycle drives by , right , the

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alarm goes off as if as if somebody is

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breaking into the car , nothing's

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really happening . So , to some extent ,

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symptoms of PTSD are like , like a

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false alarm , right ? There's no real

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danger . And yet the body is reacting

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as if there's a real dangerous event

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that is occurring or is about to occur