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  2. Types of PTSD: From Symptoms to Treatment - AOL

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    PTSD can manifest differently for different people. For some, it might be hard to remember the details of the trauma, while others may find themselves feeling a lot of self-blame.

  3. Post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [b] is a mental and behavioral disorder [8] that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.

  4. Mental disorders and gender - Wikipedia

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    For PTSD, genders differences in coping mechanisms has been proposed as a potential explanation for observed gender differences in PTSD prevalence rates. [43] Though PTSD is a common diagnosis associated with abuse and trauma for men and women, the "most common mental health problem for women who are trauma survivors is depression". [79]

  5. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD, cPTSD, or hyphenated C-PTSD) is a stress-related mental and behavioral disorder generally occurring in response to complex traumas [1] (i.e., commonly prolonged or repetitive exposures to a series of traumatic events, from which one sees little or no chance to escape).

  6. 5 statistics that explain the current teen mental health crisis

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    Other factors can influence a teen's depression and anxiety, including the mental health of the adults they live with, poverty, discrimination, abuse, exposure to violence, trauma, drug use, and ...

  7. Psychological trauma - Wikipedia

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    Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and ...

  8. Vicarious trauma after viewing media - Wikipedia

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    This increase can lead to people easily viewing negative images and stories about traumatic events that they would not have been exposed to otherwise. One thing to consider is how the dissemination of this information may be impacting the mental health of people who identify with the victims of the violence they hear and see through the media ...

  9. National PTSD Awareness Day - Wikipedia

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    In the US, 6.8% of adults will experience PTSD in their lifetimes, with women twice as likely as men to experience it (10.4% to 5%) frequently as a result of sexual trauma. Veterans are another group highly likely to experience PTSD during their lives, with Vietnam War veterans at 30%, Gulf War veterans at 10%, and Iraq War veterans at 14%. [3]