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Can ptsd be passed through the family?

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Yes: Ptsd can be passed from one generation to the next via vicarious traumatization if the parents repeatedly recite the horrors of wartime, holocaust or genocidal stories, or by direct perpetration in the case of some multigenerational cases of ritual or sexual abuse.

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Answered 5/2/2016

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