Can you get Post Traumatic Syndrome due to corporal punishment?

Question

For example; being struck very hard on the hands with a leather strap ocassionally for a period of five years .What is Post Traumatic Syndrome ? How does it affect people.

Answer 1

"Hey orangibloom! You sure can! It may not be on the order of a combat veteran, but, for corporal punishment applied to modify behavior of school children, it can be a high anxiety producing activity.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a term for certain psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with, stressful experiences that the person experiences as highly traumatic. [1] The experience must involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury, or a threat to physical and/or psychological integrity. It is occasionally called post-traumatic stress reaction to emphasize that it is a routine result of traumatic experience rather than a manifestation of a pre-existing psychological weakness on the part of the patient.

It is possible for individuals to experience traumatic stress without manifesting a full-blown post-traumatic stress disorder, as indicated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Symptoms of PTSD can include the following: nightmares, flashbacks, emotional detachment or numbing of feelings (emotional self-mortification or dissociation), insomnia, avoidance of reminders and extreme distress when exposed to the reminders ("triggers"), irritability, hypervigilance, memory loss, and excessive startle response, clinical depression and anxiety, loss of appetite.

Experiences likely to induce the condition include:

childhood physical/emotional or sexual abuse
adult experiences of rape, war or combat exposure (the latter often called combat stress reaction)
violent attacks
a serious motor/car accident
witnessing the sudden death of a loved one
natural catastrophes, such as an earthquake or tsunami
life-threatening childbirth complications
"bad trip" after taking hallucinogenic drugs
Post Cult/Sect/New Religious Movement experience/abuse
For most people, the emotional effects of traumatic events will tend to subside after several months. If they last longer, then diagnosing a psychiatric disorder is generally advised. Most people who experience traumatic events will not develop PTSD. PTSD is thought to be primarily an anxiety disorder, and should not be confused with normal grief and adjustment after traumatic events. There is also the possibility of simultaneous suffering (comorbidity) of other psychiatric disorders. These disorders often include clinical depression, general anxiety disorder and a variety of addictions.

PTSD may have a "delayed onset" of years, or even decades, and may even be triggered by a specific body movement if the trauma was stored in the procedural memory, by another stressful event, such as the death of a family member or someone else close, or by the diagnosis of a life-threatening medical condition.

Also, doctors have conducted clinical studies indicating traumatized children with PTSD are more likely to later engage in criminal activities than those who do not have PTSD."

Answer 2

You can list that insecurities are a symptom or side effect of Post Traumatic War Syndrome (which is more commonly known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-PTSD, my husband was a medic in the Army and came out with it). However, you mention it, you want to make sure that you are a thorough as possible.

Answer 3

Punch post traumatic stress syndrome into Google. You'll get all kinds of information. Have you seen a doctor about this. That would be a good place to start but Google will give you good information.

Answer 4

Post Traumatic Syndrome (PTS) is a kind of conditioned response built by repeated exposure to potentially, or actually physically dangerous situations. Whether corporal punishment could affect someone developing PTS depends on the individual themselves and the frequency of their exposure to threats or actual bodily harm but certainly it could happen.

Typical symptoms might include a person becoming very anxious or nervous in situations similar to those in which they were exposed, or even becoming completely withdrawn and non-interactive, possibly seeking to escape from their surroundings physically.

Answer 5

Key word = Traumatic

Getting spanked on the hands as painful as it may be is not a traumatic experience.

PTSD occurs when the person has felt or observed something that is beyond wht their mind can handle. They can split and become D.I.D or they can have depression and nightmares etc...

The most common PTSD cases I am personally aware of come from extreme childhood abuse and war veterans.

Answer 6

Being Catholic is not necessarily a precipitating factor in PTSD, unless the person was raped by a priest and experiences items as described below:

People respond in different ways to extreme trauma. Many people who experience extreme trauma do not develop PTSD. However, for those who do, PTSD symptoms usually appear within several weeks of the trauma, but some people don’t experience symptoms until months or even years later.

Three categories – or "clusters" – of symptoms are associated with PTSD.

Clusters

Re-living the event through recurring nightmares or other intrusive images that occur at any time. People who suffer from PTSD also have extreme emotional or physical reactions such as chills, heart palpitations or panic when faced with reminders of the event.


Avoiding reminders of the event, including places, people, thoughts or other activities associated with the trauma. PTSD sufferers may feel emotionally detached, withdraw from friends and family, and lose interest in everyday activities.


Being on guard or being hyper-aroused at all times, including feeling irritability or sudden anger, having difficulty sleeping or concentrating, or being overly alert or easily startled.
People with PTSD may have low self-esteem or relationship problems or may seem disconnected from their lives. Other problems that may mask or intensify symptoms include:

Psychiatric problems such as depression, dissociation (losing conscious awareness of the “here and now”) or another anxiety disorder like panic disorder.


Self-destructive behavior including:

- Alcohol or drug abuse
- Suicidal impulses
- High-risk sexual behaviors that may result in unintended pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including HIV
- Other high-risk behavior that may be life-endangering, such as fast or reckless driving

Physical complaints, any or all of which may be accompanied by depression, including:

- Chronic pain with no medical basis (frequently gynecological problems in women)
- Stress-related conditions such as chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia
- Stomach pain or other digestive problems such as irritable bowel syndrome or alternating bouts of diarrhea and constipation
- Eating disorders
- Breathing problems or asthma
- Headaches
- Muscle cramps or aches such as low back pain
- Cardiovascular problems
- Sleep disorders

Answer 7

No don't be silly. If that were the Case every child that ever went to a Catholic school would be a mental patient.

:o)

The syndrome is from being terrified of loosing your life from a very real situation. Smacking you hands is no where close to life threatening.

Bombs, land mines, machine gun fire, that stuff causes the syndrome.

Answer 8

What are you a left handed Catholic kid, lol? I used to get smacked in Catholic school for being left handed and I think I'm pretty well adjusted although others may argue I'm not.

PTSD is NOT what you would go through anyway. Do some research on the subject. Suck it up... and quit being bad, lol!

Answer 9

I don't think so... yeah what he said about the Catholic thing.... i would have demons in my hands telling me to kill people because of that..... no...... it's called having a little discipline..... and a little bit of focus.....