Stress Disorder after Traumatic

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental disorder in someone who comes after experiencing a traumatic experience in life or an event that threatens the safety of his soul. For example the event of war, rape or sexual assault, an attack that wounded body, torture, child abuse, natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, flash floods, traffic accident or plane crash disaster. People who experience life as a witness is likely to experience stress disorder. (Bufka & Barlow, 2006:1)

Seeking social support

• Make contact with others can reduce feelings of sadness (distress)
• Children and adolescents can be calm and positive when things can get together with their peers
• Contact relationships can be done by a family member, friend or a fellow victim

Social Support Options

• Husband / Wife
• Boyfriend
• Pastor, priest, nun, Ustad, Ustadzah, Alim Ulama
• Volunteer groups
• Trusted family member
• Your doctor or nurse
• Colleague
• Close friend
• Crisis counselors
• Pets

This thing must be done

• Talking with caution
• Start talks on the practical
• Ask first whether this is the right time for him to speak
• Been prepared for things to be discussed
• Tell your presence mean if you would like to invite to speak or just to accompany her
• Tell you how grateful for the willingness to listen
• Choose a time and place
• Talk about the pain and bitterness that happened when you're ready
• Ask what you want or how to help â € "the main thing that can help at this time

This thing is not done

• Did not say anything because it considers only going to upset
• Silent because they think they will not listen
• Silent because of fear of offending
• Just wait for contributing stress or fear can not help

Ways to get in touch

• Contact family or friends by phone
• Get involved with volunteer groups
• Increase contact with close friends
• Involved in relief activities
• Wake up / reactivate the activities of teaching, preaching in the mosque / church activities / pure / pagoda

Provide Social Support

You can help family members and friends who experienced the disaster by sharing time with them and listened attentively. Many people can recover well when they feel accepted and understood by others. Some choose to not much more to tell his experience, and some might otherwise mendiskusikanya up repeatedly. Discuss events that happened in the disaster can be a little help, along with it, just to share time with him can make him feel close and accepted, though without saying a word to feel better.

The reason why people would reject the Social Support

• Do not know what they want
• Do not want to bother other people
• Want to avoid having to think or feel the traumatic event
• Feeling embarrassed or weak
• Doubted that it could help him, or anyone else can not understand
• Others will feel disappointed or judgmental
• Felt it would lose control
• Were desperate for help and was previously no help
• Do not know what to ask for help to anyone?

Positive things that happen when you get social support

• Show interest, concern and caring
• There was a respect for the individual reactions and begin to live better
• Better able to comment on the disaster that has occurred
• Able to communicate well at all times
• With time berjalanya stress can gradually recovered
• Believed everyone could recover as usual
• Free from the judgments of others
• Can talk about positive things to do in the recovery
• Can talk to or share time together as long as needed

Things that can interfere with Social Support

• Forcing people to feel comfortable and say that all that has passed
• Shows that other people weaker than yourself is tough because it can lead to better
• Just talking about his own experience without going to hear the stories of others
• Give advice that is not appropriate because you do not ask or mendengarkanya first
• Stop talking when people are expressing things that are bothering her
• Tell them, that they are among the lucky survivors

If the Social Support provided is not sufficient ..

• Let them know what the experts say that the avoidance and withdrawal would lead to an increase in grief / fear (distress) and realize that the social support provided to help them to recover
• Convince them to want to communicate with a counselor, cleric / priest, or doctor / nurse who offered to help them
• Convince them to engage in a group that supports each other are equally affected
• In the end the support of others in a social environment will be a part of yourself that is very supportive of each other.