PTSD in Children

PTSD In Children - Exposure to traumatic events is very common in young people. After a trauma a child may feel distressed, tearful or in shock. In most cases they will recover well with family support but if these feelings persist, they may have developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

This film explains how to identify and help a child showing the symptoms of PTSD.

Please note - some images and content may be upsetting or disturbing. This film is not intended to be watched by children.

This short film features real-life accounts of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) experienced by young people. Through their words we see the importance of early intervention by parents and teachers.

Exposure to traumatic events is very common in young people. After a trauma, a child may feel distressed, tearful or in shock. In most cases, they will recover well with family support but if these feelings persist, they may have developed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

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These films range from how teachers and carers can help support children who may be experiencing PTSD to hearing from families' first-hand experiences of post-traumatic stress disorder.

For teachers or carers of young children interested in finding out more about how to support better mental health:

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Mental Health tips for Teachers of young children Playlist

Our films range from tips for teachers in the classroom can use if their students are experiencing symptoms of mental illness, neurodiverse or neurodevelopmental issues, to handling disclosures from children, anxiety about covid or going back to school. We also have short films with tips on how to help children look after their mental health.

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[nevada]

I'm 13 years old and yeah I have it bc well I'm saw how my parents was killed and it's scary, I'm afraid of everything I always lock myself with a hundred locks, I'm afraid to walk down the street or drive a car

[AM-Rasmussen]

Many times I have considered whether it can still be detected (diagnosed) or whether too many years have passed, although I'm pretty sure I met the criteria for PTSD back then. Just 4 days ago. I woke up feeling strange, sad and down - The date kind of still haunt me, how is that, here what? 4 decades later?

The short version, I was run over by a bus and dragged meters under it - I saw death and it was coming for me. You know, I was just a little kid, I knew nothing of these thing and suddenly I did, that has to leave a mark.

About 5 years later, psychiatry met me the first time, I was not doing so well, but they did not realize how bad it was. Later I got some anger issues and mental shutdowns, not wanting to talk to anyone (at school I was almost silent, hardly spoke a word) and no one understood why. I mean, pretty obvious something is going on, if it takes 4 grown men (2 weren't enough) to remove a tiny 18 year old girl. All the boozing and the drugs, says it all.

The memory is fragmented and there are still things I don't remember - the little sparks from the bike I remember clearly and the sound of the bones in the arm, under the weight of the bus, I vividly remember, the same goes for the sound of the tire as it slid close past my right ear, but the ambulance ride is gone. For 10 years or so I remembered nothing and then it started coming back, in little flashes, the first one being, the second I realized what would happen, I saw, felt and heard it all, like it happened again and in a state I just ran all the way home as if the devil himself was after me.

Over time I no longer dared to go outside the door, just be afraid all the time. Don't ask how furious I got at God, decades later, when another bus hit me, seriously! are you kidding me!!? This is not how I die you a hole! But this time round, some whizz got the idea, my emotional reactions, just are part of a thyroid disease. I am getting old and I just want to retire - maybe it is just to late now, so is it to much to ask, let me grow old with dignity and do what ever old people do.

However I do wonder, do I have PTSD or Complex PTSD and if so, how to grow old with that.

[blood.pie]

3:45 is exactly what I'd do everytime I drew or played games. I think Because of the constant exposure to gore when I was really little made me have an obsession with it. I remember my parents would always be angry or just upset with me whenever I would draw the most upsetting and disturbing shit from the age of 5 lol

[brookemarshall]

I have been Through lot of trauma ces I was a kid and I been through more Trauma than most people in the world and now I am 32 and I am still dealing with a lot of stuff

[Editor_Fishy]

I have adhd and autism and I was attacked by a grown woman when I was 6 and my brain is even more messed up so my mental age is stunted at 6