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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can develop after exposure to a traumatic or scary event like combat, abuse, assaults, or natural disasters. Symptoms include flashbacks, nightmares, frightening thoughts, and physical reactions. Common causes are war, rape, physical assault, natural disasters, sexual abuse, vehicle accidents, and animal attacks. People with PTSD may feel detached from others and have difficulty socializing or feeling emotions.

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can develop after exposure to a traumatic or scary event like combat, abuse, assaults, or natural disasters. Symptoms include flashbacks, nightmares, frightening thoughts, and physical reactions. Common causes are war, rape, physical assault, natural disasters, sexual abuse, vehicle accidents, and animal attacks. People with PTSD may feel detached from others and have difficulty socializing or feeling emotions.

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PTSD: POST-TRAUMATIC

STRESS DISORDER
By: Dallas Miller & Sabrita Johnson

WHAT IS PTSD?
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can occur after you have been
through a traumatic event. A traumatic event is something terrible and
scary that you see, hear about, or that happens to you, like:

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Combat exposure

Child sexual or physical abuse


Terrorist attack
Sexual or physical assault
Serious accidents, like a car wreck
Natural disasters, like a fire, tornado, hurricane, flood, or earthquake
http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/PTSD-overview/basics/what-is-ptsd.asp

SYMPTOMS

Flashbacks- reliving the trauma over and


over, including physical symptoms like a
1. racing heart or sweating
2. Bad Dreams
3. Frightening thoughts
(http://www.nimh.nih.gov)

1. War
2. Rape

CAUSES

3. Physical assault
4. Natural disaster such as Earthquakes,
Hurricanes, or Fire
5. Sexual Abuse
6. Motor Vehicle
7. Animal Attack
(http://www.med.hyu.edu)

EFFECTS

1. Makes them hard to be with


2. Hard time feeling emotional
3. Often become anti-social
4. Detached from others
(http://www.ptsd.va.gov)

WORDS FROM A P.T.S.D. VICTIM

SITE PAGE
http://www.nimh.nih.gov
http://www.med.nyu.edu
http://www.ptsd.va.gov

THE END

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