SYMPTOMS OF PTSD ARE:

• Flashbacks of the event (children can repeatedly play out event)
• Repeated distressing dreams of the event
• Acting or feeling as if the event is occurring all over again
• Intense psychological distress when thinking of the event
• Feeling physical distress when thinking of the event (stomach aches, head aches Etc.)
• Efforts to avoid thinking of event
• Efforts to avoid activities, people or places that bring up event
• Lack of memory of all parts of event
• Lack of interest in activities
• Feeling detached from others
• Inability to feel all emotions to their fullest
• Sense of foreshortened future
• Hard time falling or staying asleep
• Irritability
• Hard time concentrating
• Hyper vigilance
• Startle easily