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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
A serious and potentially debilitating condition that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a natural disaster, serious accident, terrorist incident, sudden death of a loved one, war, violent personal assault such as rape, or other life-threatening events.
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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Preteen 6-13 | Very common | ||||
Teenager 14-18 | Very common | ||||
Young adult 19-40 | Very common | ||||
Middle-aged adult 41-60 | Very common |
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At times,can messing up words, forgetting how to spell, be expected 4 my age? Can depression / stress cause this? Think have PTSD from pastmarriage..
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Since there is stress everywhere everyday, can you have ptsd without one responsible bad causative event?
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Can you explain if it's possible to not know you have been through a traumatic event, but still have ptsd?
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Is extreme workplace stress over a period of 16 months enough to cause PTSD or make a pre-existing condition worsen to need intervention?
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Only psychiatrist respond please.Mentally ill.It's not PTSD. Sufferin from delayed emotional response an reaction related 2 recent non traumatic thing?
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Amnesia in PTSD? Traumatic ER visit in 2009 now hypochondriac. Lost all memory of ever being sick in my life up until 2009. Anything recent I remember
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If I continue to have flashbacks of when I was 3 years old and my mom chest or bosom and I wake up and I saw my mom's face biological mother or her face with the expression of death written on it. would that be considered PTSD since that is traumatic?
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I have post traumatic stress disorder I have taken propanolol and fluoxitine for four years. No improvement. S?Should i stop or change my med
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