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ORIGINS OF TRAUMA/PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
is an anxiety disorder that a person may develop after experiencing or
merely witnessing an extreme or
overwhelming traumatic event. More specifically, the trauma
is an intensely stressful event during which a person suffers
serious harm or comes close to
suffering serious harm or death, or witnesses and event in
which another person may have been killed, seriously injured
or threatened. All of this may result in intense helplessness,
or horror. Traumatic events include many of the following:
- Catastrophes
- Harmful and fatal accidents (car,
plane, train)
- Natural disasters
- Terrorism
- Public Humiliation/Social Anxiety
- Performance anxiety
- Speech anxiety
- Violent attack
- Animal attack
- Assault
- Battery and domestic violence
- Rape
- Abuse
- Mental
- Physical
- Sexual
- Verbal (i.e., sexual
and/or violent content)
- War, battle, and combat
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