Can women who have been emotionally abused by their spouses have PTSD?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Anybody who has been abused can develop PTSD, including women. What I find puzzling is that it is always women who are discussed in such matters.
What? Men can't be emotionally and mentally abused by women? I think this country has taken this "abused woman" crap way too far. Apparently a judge in Georgia thought so too when he recently denied a womans request for a PFA against her husband after finding out that the woman lied in order to secure the PFA on fraudulent claims. Seems the woman wanted to have her husband thrown out of his own home so she could move her boyfriend in. There was absolutely no history of domestic violence involving the husband against his wife even though the wife stated in the PFA that she "feared for her life"- a common theme in PFA's across the nation. I'm certainly not advocating violence of any kind against women, but as long as these slutty women continue to do such things against an innocent, hard-working man, she pretty much gets what she gets at his hands and has no-one to blame except her own sorry ***.

Answer 3

Anyone may have "PTSD" if they have experienced a traumatic event.

According to the current DSM-IV, individuals suffering from PTSD experience the following symptoms: The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced by the person through intrusive, recurring thoughts or nightmares; the person avoids stimuli associated with the trauma (such as cars if the person was in a car crash); The person may experience chronic tension or irratibility, often accompanied by insomnia and the inability to tolerate noise; The person many have impaired concentration and memory; Feelings of depression may take over, and the individual may avoid social situations or environmnets where he or she would be exposed to excitable stimuli.

It's important to realize that even if you determine this person is suffering from PTSD according to above information, that giving people labels solves nothing. Labels belong on bottles not people. However, there are a couple of solutions to PTSD, according to my abnormal psychology text:

"DIRECT-EXPOSURE THERAPY"

The individual suffering from PTSD is reintroduced to the stimuli that caused or has come to be associated with the traumatic event. It involved repeated and extended exposure to this object. This sort of therapy employs to some degree the same techniques as Systematic-desensitization.

(In English: expose the person to something that causes them to think about the event purposefully, over and over, and try and reassociate those things with positive experiences to erase the hurt)

"PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS"

Several medications can be used to provide relief for intense PTSD symptoms. Antidepressants help relieve depression, intrusion, and avoidance. Medication must be closeley monitored, however because PTSD intensity can fluctuate substantially over time. So can the symptoms. Often, the medication tends to focus on one symptom: nightmares, images, startled reactions, and anhedonia.

(In English: Generally, use medication as a last resort because sometimes it can cause more problems than it cures. If you're gonna use them, make sure you watch closely what you're doing.)

That information comes directly from my textbook for abnormal psychology:

Butcher, James; Mineka, Susan; Hooley, Jill. "Abnormal Psychology". Pearson: Boston, 2004. Page 168.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Yes, they can. It may be difficult to prove and some therapist may even misdiagnosis it with something else like situational disorder or something b/c with PTSD the feeling is supposed to be extremly traumatic as a death-like experience would be- which is the reason so many war vets are diagnosed with PTSD.

Answer 5

For sure. I don't understand the whole concept of PTSD though, as life has traumatic experiences, meaning that most people have likely experienced very negative and traumatic events.

Answer 6

Oh yes....

and you know the intense therapy that other PTSD sufferers get to seek? You will need to seek that as well.

Otherwise healing takes a long time, and in this case, shorter is better.

Live well

Answer 7

Yes, it is very comman. Also can show up in children from homes with an abusive environment. In children they are often diagnosised ADD but actually have PTSD.

Answer 8

Yes. Post traumatic stress disorder can come with verbal as well as physical abuse.

Answer 9

you can get PTSD from any past tramatic experience

Answer 10

yep