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

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    The causes of PTSD are traumatic events or ongoing stressful and traumatizing situations. Some examples of traumatic experiences that can lead to PTSD: A history of child abuse.

  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. Stress-related disorders - Wikipedia

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    The causes of PTSD are: natural or human disasters, war, serious accident, witness of violent death of others, violent attack, being the survivor of sexual abuse, rape, torture, terrorism or hostage taking. The predisposing factors are: personality traits and previous history of psychiatric illness.

  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. Management of post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts and memories, dreams or flashbacks of the event; avoidance of people, places and activities that remind the individual of the event; ongoing negative beliefs about oneself or the world, mood changes and persistent feelings of anger, guilt or fear; alterations in arousal such as increased ...

  7. Genetics of post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 30% of the variance in PTSD is caused by genetics alone. [1] For twins exposed to combat in the Vietnam War, a monozygotic (identical) twin with PTSD was associated with an increased risk of the co-twin having PTSD, as compared to dizygotic (non-identical) twins; [2] additionally, assaultive trauma (compared to non-assaultive trauma) was more likely to exacerbate these effects.

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