The human body is a marvelous thing, full of functions and abilities that we may not always immediately understand. Indeed, there is much about it that we may not have a full grasp of, but medical science continues to march forward and give us a better understanding of what the body does and how it works. The human body, at that, has been proven to be extraordinarily resilient, resistant to the point of seeming elasticity - bouncing back from difficult and even harrowing experiences. This is often the case, but we occasionally find ourselves carrying significant scars from these experiences, both mental and physical.

Mental or emotional scars tend to fall under the definition of trauma, which is a fairly long-lasting effect of a particularly affecting experience. Indeed, psychological trauma is that which tends to affect our mental and emotional well-being, due to lingering memories or emotional reaction imprints from experiences such as serious accidents such as those of a vehicular nature; sexual or physical assault; terrorist attack or similar combat exposure; natural disasters such as floods, fires or earthquakes, and others. Experiencing or even witnessing such high-anxiety situations tends to leave traumatic scars due to the intensity, resulting in potentially affected decision-making, worldview, and similar psychological factors afterwards.

Some people may even develop a condition called post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD. This is a condition that manifests after an intense, anxiety-causing event and has effects that linger on for more than thirty days, with symptoms that are mostly noticeable. Some symptoms include re-experiencing the traumatic incident, in which memories of the event unspool and cause the patient to relive the incident that caused the trauma. Decision-making faculties can also be affected, brought about by an intense desire to avoid circumstances or situations similar to those that preceded or yielded the traumatic event in question. An emotional numbness or distance can also build up in sufferers of PTSD, resulting in their being disconnected from others and the quality of their life being affected negatively as well. Finally, those with PTSD can be jittery and hypervigilant as a way of looking out for danger of any sort, usually out of trying to avoid a similarly harrowing situation.

When it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder treatment Melbourne has many facilities that offer top-notch assessment and therapy. A person need not suffer the lingering effects of PTSD, ensuring that one traumatic incident need not ruin his or her quality of life for very long.