Introduction Stress is a common reaction of the brain, body, and soul. Everybody gets stressed when trying to overcome the daily challenges of life events. Trauma makes an individual dependent and vulnerable. It is advisable to remind oneself to have potentials and enduring skills that can enable the victim to go through challenging times. Recovering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a continuous, day-to-day, ongoing process and it does not take place through immediate imminent or cure. Healing does not implicate that a survivor will fail to remember the war incidents or emotional hurt when recalling the unpleasant events, but by overcoming the sense of self helplessness it is possible to live with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This essay will focus on some ways that can be applied to help an individual reduce nervousness and minimize other upsetting reactions (Catherall, 1992). Trauma results Trauma can result in unyielding stress, which can become uncontrollable despite the efforts of high-quality stress management. Traumatic events result in relentless tension reaction that becomes critical to manage (Caudill, 2008). Trauma includes an exceptional nature of the outward and emotional shock that shoots up the flight-flight stress reaction that is, feeling irritated or frightened into hyper-stress that is, feeling horrified, astonished, and disgusted. Trauma can be a result of disasters, accidents, sexual harassment, physical abuse, illness among other factors. Trauma is most cases leaves a mark of shock, panic, and defenselessness of the body and brain (Cochran, 2004). If you realize that a person has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, it is advisable to get assistance immediately. If a person becomes less in seeking treatment, they should realize that the posttraumatic stress is not a symptom of being weak and therefore should face up to what had taken place to them and take it as just an experience that requires being outlived. It is normal for any human being to try to escape painful memories, but if a person tries to ignore the reality of the situation, the disorder will only get worse. To overcome the stress it is vital to seek guidance, counseling, and support from experienced human resources or doctors. Steps in managing stress The foremost step in managing stress is realizing the signs and symptoms of posttraumatic anxiety (Goulston, 2007). Trauma is so disgusting that it leaves memories that cannot be forgotten or remembered at all. Those memories that are not forgotten keep recurring and they become unpleasant feelings or nightmares.­­­­­­ At times one may feel like it is hard to stop reliving the incidents and in some other cases, it becomes too much for the brain to accommodate and the brain takes a rest. For a significant number of people, posttraumatic stress responses may occur for several days and weeks after an attack. With proper stress management, these feelings reduce with time. The other important step is to recognize the methods of dealing with traumatic anxiety that is normal, this is because they normally lengthen and deteriorate the common posttraumatic anxiety reactions (Levine, 2008). This can be achieved by making efforts to keep away from the people and also the places that act as a reminder of the events. The person should make all the possible effor