PTSD and Developmental Disabilities

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is very common in people with developmental disabilities (including FASD). In this video, we talk about what PTSD is, and how we can support someone who also happens to have a developmental disability.

[CAFFEE]

When someone with epilepsy is having a seizure we don't react with anger and take it personally. Knowledge is power. Thank you for giving us this perspective. If we think of the episode as if it is a seizure we can rap our heads around the proactive approach you describe. We can remain calm ourselves. This is an important factor. If we can keep our cool and treat the person with FASD with respect and hold them in a safe place in our hearts there is a much better chance of reducing the anxiety of everyone involved. The meltdown becomes a symptom that calls out for empathy and support.

[ClarkyClark]

I remember with my PTSD I was hypervigilant and constantly slept with a gun. I got little sleep because my trauma happened as I was sleeping and afterwards I never wanted to bee caught sleeping again. Took years to get to a better place. Thanks for thirds video.

[jhadxia]

Great video to get some perspective on how people with PTSD feel and what they go through.  Great job!

[carolbindig]

Thank you so much for this video this has helped the staff at my daughters school understand and support her better!

[davidtichborne]

I have a developmental disability and my dr and therapist has agreed that it's caused by alot of childhood trauma basically the ones that you mentioned physical and mental abuse witnessing domestic violence and being abandoned also being a victim of bullying at school and going through nearly all that throughout my childhood and I of course also have depression anxiety and ptsd also do to childhood trauma genetics for mental health also play a role in my mental health problems because alot of people in my family have mental health problems so it's definitely caused by

[lornawynn]

This is why I would like to be a peer for a person with a developmental disability or autism

[ThatGuy-murr]

I got to a point in my life and job that I either needed to go on pills or go into semiretirement with a different job. I chose the latter.

[davidtichborne]

Sometimes I accually think that in some way it's worse to deal with the childhood trauma then going to war now hear me out because when it's war the people who are doing it to us are strangers we don't have any releshionships with them but when it's childhood trauma it is someone that were supposed to love and trust so that makes us often more depressed and often struggles to trust more and often with war the people are ussually grown consenting adults full on consent to that trauma and those risks where as a kid it's not with consent and often childhood trauma can last longer than war ussually because childhood trauma can last a very long time like myself it lasted from birth until like in my 20s but then again from what I've seen alot of people only go through it for months and sometimes years I barely see people go through childhood trauma for there whole childhood into adulthood where as war pretty much always lasts for years but often times not 15 or 20 years or longer so I don't know it can always depend

[sophiepalmer-doran]

Hi sorry if this is scattered so in elementary school in gym class in elementary there was this teacher Coach Neville
so coach Neville I didn't remember too much because I detached myself from the time I was in the gym. I would pretend I was anywhere but the gym .

Gym tended to consist of outdated stretches like from 90s whatever and he would pick somebody and he wouldn't exactly direct the stretches but he would pick someone and they went to the center of the gym and we had to copy so and then after that we stood up and we would run around the gym he would take out a drum from the music class depending on the tempo that's how you moved so a very fast-paced one would be running would be a different rhythm skipping and such and one day he one day I guess I was too slow and in the meantime you know. he always had a smirk it was just not a good coach you always like
if you had been a sibling that was misbehaving or something and then the next another sibling was in his class he would mistreat you based on your sibling’s Behavior.
So with that in mind and I need to know if kids would never know why this was happening anyway so we did the usual stretches and we went around the entire gym like normal . Because I was too slow or something he asked everybody to sit down and then he took my hand he took my right hand and he grabbed it and he was everybody sitting down watching us he took my hand I tried my best to he tried I tried my best to get away and I couldn't and he forced me to run all the way around the gymnasium while the rest of the class watched

Hi kindergarten to third grade I had a coach named Nevil he always smirked. At the start of every class he would pick someone to lead class then he took out a drum and whatever the tempo that is how one moved around the gym. He did something humiliating and traumatic after warmups he asked everyone to sit down.He took my wrist and ran at top speed around the gym after he was done running he said to every "that is how you run

[Levi_Loves_Ag]

I just want to know how often you wear that shirt!