Posts Tagged ‘ mental health ’

Natural terror causes long term stress too

March 3 2009
By PSA.org.au

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prolonged and sometimes delayed anxiety disorder resulting from a traumatic event. PTSD is a serious psychological reaction that some people develop after an overwhelmingly frightening or traumatic experience, especially an experience that threatens life or safety. Most people who experience a traumatic event will have emotional and psychological reactions...
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Making mental health a priority

October 1 2008
By PSA.org.au

Sport should be a relaxing pastime, but elite sport can be quite stressful. The recent Olympic and Paralympic Games have provided both the participants and the spectators with some pretty tense moments. Locally, the A League Soccer has just begun again, but for the other football codes, it’s finals time; and for every winner there’ll...
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