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PostTraumatic Stress Disorder
Title: PostTraumatic Stress Disorder
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1843 | Pages: 7.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
PostTraumatic Stress Disorder
Have you ever witnessed someone being badly injured or even killed? Have you ever been involved in a fire, flood, or any other natural disaster? The estimated lifetime prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among adult Americans is 7.8%, with men calculating at 5% and women at 10.4%, twice as likely as men to have PTSD at some point in their lives. This represents a small proportion of those who have experienced at least one traumatic event, for 60.7% of …showed first 75 words of 1843 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1843 total…Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder." National Mental Health Association. Online. Internet. 10 Oct. 2000. www.nmha.org/infoctr/factsheets/ptsd/pwl.cfm.
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