Why rethinking PTSD can change everything | Charlie Webster | TEDxNHS

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In the summer of 2016 broadcaster and journalist Charlie Webster was in a comma and on life support. Thankfully she survived - a ‘miracle’ according to her doctors. But Charlie’s talk doesn’t focus on what happened, or even how it happened. Instead she charts the journey of followed. As she navigated the rough seas of PTSD - post traumatic stress disorder - and struggled to come to terms with the aftermath of her experience. In the UK 1 in 13 young people have experienced PTSD before they reach 18. And it’s estimated that 24.4 million Americans have PTSD at any given time; that’s the entire population of Texas. In sharing her battle to overcome PTSD, Charlie highlights the need to offer mental health support as standard practice to anyone in intensive care, in our hospitals, in our emergency departments. To see PTSD as a global public health issue that has far-reaching consequences in society. Charlie is an experienced broadcaster and journalist across both TV and radio, covering nearly every major sporting event. She has spoken widely about her personal experiences of PTSD, having experienced sexual abuse as a teenager, as well as a near death experience when she contracted malaria during a charity cycling challenge. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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20 июл 2024

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@PTSDThroughtheDarkness 3 года назад

You are so right, so often society focuses on what we survived...and forgets that the battle is just beginning. Well-informed survivors are trauma's worst nightmare. Survivors need to talk. Society needs to listen.

@JenOween 3 года назад

We don't need to hear that there's "hope". We need to know that there are evidence-backed plans for recovery and the support to help to understand our own minds.

@xxTheMouseThatRoaredxx Год назад

We need to remember that it's not just the child who acts out and needs attention. We need to watch for the quiet people-pleasers in the classroom as well. They're often hiding deep trauma

@sunny4lady 3 года назад

I survived a 2 story fall, and like her was in intensive care after fracturing 10 bones including my spine and a collapsed lung etc. I had to learn to walk again and am now disabled and can only walk short distances. I, like her had good care, but not one doctor or nurse recognised that trauma I was going through and there was even one doctor who wrote in my journal while I was in intensive care, ''she thinks she is in a crisis''. I had flashbacks, almost daily violent nightmares, I woke up each morning with an empty feeling of not seeing the point of life. I was filled with shame and negative thoughts. Like her my ptsd, almost 3 years later is a lot better but I still get rage from time to time. Not a single doctor or nurse recognised that I was going through ptsd. And from time to time I still deal with brain fog/dissociation.

@elizabethrhodes6089 3 года назад

As a person who also survived a medical emergency, thank you, thank you, thank you for shining a light on the psychological ramifications of surviving critical illness. They're both profound and under recognized. Yours is a very needed message. I applaud you.

@etkruzan2933 3 года назад

After struggling with PTSD for almost forty YEARS, I am now determined to face my trauma and rise above it. I dream of being able to help others as you are with your wonderful talk. Thank you.

@jetd6764 3 года назад

I am 52 year old man. I still cry like a baby, esp. when no one around. This year I cry almost evey day sometimes two to three time a day. When I was 8 or 9, I startet to show some symptoms already. I have overcome too many obstacles in my life, but I am continue to fight this Ptsd.

@etkruzan2933 3 года назад

@@jetd6764 I wish you a very Merry Christmas. Even though it's a "Covid kind of Christmas", I hope you find reason to smile and LOVE yourself.

@persevere6326 2 года назад

Consider EMDR therapy

@pekolucky 3 года назад

Anything that remotely resembles or reminds the person of the original trauma can trigger an effect.

@uniqueone2731 Год назад

I know it’s a older video but I have to say this video is so ON POINT !!!! USMC veteran and I can tell you for sure this is the best way I have ever heard PTSD explained . I could never put it into words. I guess that’s why this video made me cry so much. I was thinking YES YES THATS IT!! Thank you for sharing this with the world

@uniqueone2731 Год назад

Not only can it kill you. You need too ask how long until it does 11:20

@davidhellard2769 4 года назад

Such a good talk Charlie and completely new topic to me, so really important to understand

@cherry19821 3 года назад

I feel you, i deeply understand you. i am crying with you when i listen to this.

@sarahskicks Год назад

This is so so relatable. Thanks for sharing.

@wrenwoodgrove1348 Год назад

Very graphic representation of PTSD. I could definitely feel the truth of it in your presentation. I think though that it is even more prevalent than what you say. We need compassionate societies. Unfortunately, that is not what we are currently getting in the U.S. Well done. ❤ Thank you!

@junemichaels6668 3 года назад

Bravo ... thank you.

@nathaliartist Год назад

Gracias 💚

@persevere6326 2 года назад

Profound

@kimberlybrink1400 Год назад

Thank your local vet

@uniqueone2731 Год назад

I have a question. I really hope you might see this and answer . I was working on a mower and it blew up into flams a friend was screaming trying to push it out of the shop I froze crying. It wasn’t the fired or the heat . The smell of burning oil took me deep in myself and I froze