After experiencing an overwhelming and stressing event, a person could get traumatized. Such events can have a major impact on a person’s health, whether it was physical or mental.
Mentally, one could be in a state of mind called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Nonetheless, some people can be traumatized without having PTSD.
In order to get better, the patient must get diagnosed properly by a therapist whose role is to get the sufferer to open up. This is a successful way to start the treatment.
However, a new approach was discovered by Welsh academics which is effective to get wind of a person’s traumatic experiences.
The research was conducted by Dr. Aimee McKinnon at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. The process is to measure the pupil of the person’s eye while looking at threatening content such as violent images as well as pleasant content.
PTSD patients reacted differently; their pupils grew larger. Moreover, the trial showed an unforeseen result. The pupils’ size did not only change because of terrifying and menacing stimuli, but also due to those showing enjoyable and entertaining images.
Unexpectedly, traumatized people who are not diagnosed with PTSD did not have the same response.
“If someone with PTSD is faced with any high-level of emotional stimulation, even if this is positive emotion, it can immediately trigger the threat system. Clinicians need to understand this impact of positive stimuli in order to support their service-users overcome the significant challenges they face,” Dr. Mckinnon mentioned.
The Biological Psychology journal published this fact-finding which the experts still need to test before using it clinically.
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