Dr. John A. King explains post-traumatic stress as a normal reaction to trauma, not a disorder. Most people experience short-term distress like intrusive dreams that resolve within 2-6 weeks as the brain files the memory away.
So what is post-traumatic stress? Let's look at that first. So following trauma, post, someone gets distressed by it. So post-traumatic stress. And people exposed to trauma, traumatic events, experiences, most everyone has a short-term impact on their own life. In some ways, they might get a dream or a recollection. And most of it's resolved normally in between 2 to 6 weeks. So anyone who's had a traumatic experience can suffer from post-traumatic stress. It's not a disorder or a mental illness. It's what happens after you go through trauma. But as I said, over time, the brain deals with it, files it appropriately, and someone is able to move on from the trauma or the event in their post-traumatic stage. It's not something that stays with them.
