What are the symptoms of PTSD?

PTSD can cause many symptoms. These symptoms can be grouped into three categories:

1. Re-experiencing symptoms:

• Flashbacks—reliving the trauma over and over, including physical symptoms like a racing heart or sweating
• Bad dreams
• Frightening thoughts.

Re-experiencing symptoms may cause problems in a person’s everyday routine. They can start from the person’s own thoughts and feelings. Words, objects, or situations that are reminders of the event can also trigger re-experiencing.

2. Avoidance symptoms:

• Staying away from places, events, or objects that are reminders of the experience
• Feeling emotionally numb
• Feeling strong guilt, depression, or worry
• Losing interest in activities that were enjoyable in the past
• Having trouble remembering the dangerous event.

Things that remind a person of the traumatic event can trigger avoidance symptoms. These symptoms may cause a person to change his or her personal routine. For example, after a bad car accident, a person who usually drives may avoid driving or riding in a car.

3. Hyperarousal symptoms:

• Being easily startled
• Feeling tense or “on edge”
• Having difficulty sleeping, and/or having angry outbursts.

Hyperarousal symptoms are usually constant, instead of being triggered by things that remind one of the traumatic event. They can make the person feel stressed and angry. These symptoms may make it hard to do daily tasks, such as sleeping, eating, or concentrating.

It’s natural to have some of these symptoms after a dangerous event. Sometimes people have very serious symptoms that go away after a few weeks. This is called acute stress disorder, or ASD. When the symptoms last more than a few weeks and become an ongoing problem, they might be PTSD. Some people with PTSD don’t show any symptoms for weeks or months.

The Future Prosperity of God's People

Jeremiah 31 23-26

²³The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says, "When I restore the people to their land, they will once again say in the land of Judah and in its towns,
'May the LORD bless the sacred hill of Jerusalem, the holy place where he lives.'

²⁴People will live in Judah and in all its towns, and there will be farmers, and shepherds with their flocks.

²⁵I will refresh those who are weary and will satisfy with food everyone who is weak from hunger.

²⁶So then, people will say, 'I went to sleep and woke up refreshed.'

God Bless on this new Beautiful day.

Stress Reduction Tip

Trying to do something perfectly can make it hard to do anything at all. It’s OK to make it "good enough." You can always make improvements later.

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This is a very important tip. Remember oe step at a time. One day at a time.

Live and plan only for today. Give our worries to God, He will take care of the rest.

He gives us rest! He frees us from our worries.

Take a breathe!

Stacey

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Some of the characteristics of False Shepherds, Teachers and Prophets, according to Scripture, are:

PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF. STUDY!!

• •They appear harmless but are not

• •They are extortioners and robbers

• •They come to extract a price from the sheep

• •They are capable of showing signs and wonders

• •They are able to deceive

• •They bring a slow and gradual introduction of heresies

• •They cause people to despise and speak ill of the truth

• •They use false emotion and pretend to be affected by their own words

• •They cleverly craft their words to have an effect in order to deceive

• •They traffic in sheep and use them for the personal gain

• •They use false and deceptive visions

• •They claim to hear and speak for God but fail to uncover sin in the flock.

• •They do not truly loose the captives but fill them with false hope and delusions

• •They are greedy and never have enough

• •They teach things that they do not understand

• •They are territorial

• •They lead people along a difficult path instead of leading them to a place of rest

• •They feed themselves but do not feed the sheep

• •They feast on the very ones they are supposed to be feeding

• •They do not strengthen the weak

• •They do not truly heal the sick

• •They do not bind up the broken

• •They do not seek after those they have driven away

• •They do not seek the lost

• •They lead the flock with force and cruelty

• •They do not care about sheep who have wandered off

• •They leave the sheep open to attack from beasts of the field

• •They prophesy lies and false visions

• •Their words are empty, worthless and deceitful

• •They speak that all is well to people who are clearly in sin and at enmity with God

• •They say they speak for the Lord but they don't

• •They say the Lord has sent them but He hasn't

• •Their visions come from their own heart and not from the Lord's

• •They prophesy witchcraft and divination

• •They are hirelings and only in it for themselves

• •They make people vain

• •They falsely tell people that no harm will befall them instead of warning them

• •They destroy and scatter the sheep

• •They commit adultery

• •They walk in lies

• •They reinforce sin by telling people what they want to hear

• •They claim their dreams are from the Lord

• •They cause people to prefer to be led by dreams and visions rather than the word of God.

• •They cause people to exchange true worship for pagan worship

• ---- Post gratefully copied from Discernment Ministries ----

Knowledge is power.

If it does not produce fruit, do not eat it.