Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

by Peter Garsden / Friday, 23 August 2013 / Published in

Set of extreme reactions to abuse, including recurrent and intrusive recollections of abuse, recurrent dreams related to the abuse, sense of reliving the abuse, distress and exposure to events, which evoke the abuse. Other symptoms include sleep disturbances, persistent increased arousal, irritability, anger, aggression, hyper vigilance and physiological reactions to events resembling the abuse.

About Peter Garsden

Peter Garsden has been a solicitor since 1981 and is a Partner of Simpson Millar. He is Head of the Child Abuse Department which is one of the largest dedicated Abuse compensation departments in the country. Peter has been working for victims of abuse since he set up the abuse department in 1994. In 1997 Peter helped to set up ACAL (Association of Child Abuse Lawyers), a Claimant based organisation of compensation abuse lawyers dedicated to raising the standards of advice through training and support, of which he is now President. Peter’s clients have said they admire his hard work and determination.