Avoidance Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Channel: Psych Bytes
Date: 2018-05-14

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As a piece of being diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a person needs to experience symptoms in four separate categories beyond just exposure to a traumatic event.

One of those categories is avoidance symptoms, which is where the individual begins to avoid circumstances directly tied to the traumatic events.

It is important that the avoidance began after the traumatic event occurred and not prior.

The first set of symptoms is the avoidance of distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings associated with the traumatic event.

The next set of symptoms takes that a bit further in that a person also avoids people, places, conversations, activities, objects, etc. that may then cause them to have those distressing memories, thoughts, or feelings.

This may seem like a common sense response to a terribly painful experience, but avoidance symptoms can drive a person into unhealthy isolation and disconnection with a supportive and healing environment.

Extensive research supports that avoidance does not allow for a person to heal from their traumatic wound.

It may feel good in the moment, but it is ultimately making the situation worse. 

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