Post-traumatic stress disorders

Post-traumatic stress disorders

A community portal about Post-traumatic stress disorders with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Post-traumatic stress disorder is a term for certain psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with... [more]

A community portal about Post-traumatic stress disorders with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Post-traumatic stress disorder is a term for certain psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with, stressful experiences that the person experiences as highly traumatic. The experience must involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury, or a threat to physical and/or psychological integrity. It is occasionally called post-traumatic stress reaction to emphasize that it is a routine result of traumatic experience rather than a manifestation of a pre-existing psychological weakness on the part of the patient.

I have a question I've been ruminating over for quite a while now. Statistics for the prevalence of PTSD are available on a nation-per-nation basis. For example, in my country, Sweden, lifetime prevalence of PTSD in the general population is 5.6% according to a 2005 study (7.4% women, 3.6% men).1 ...  
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