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From Sidran Institute: Traumatic Stress Education and Advocacy
Facts at a Glance
▪ An estimated 70 percent of adults in the United States have experienced a traumatic event at least once in their lives and up to 20 percent of these people go on to develop posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
▪ An estimated 5 percent of Americans—more than 13 million people—have PTSD at any given time.
▪ Approximately 8.7 percent of all adults—1 of 13 people in this country—will develop PTSD during their lifetime.
▪ About 3.6% of adults in the United States suffer from PTSD during the course of a year.
▪ An estimated 1 out of 9 women will get PTSD at some time in their lives. Women are about twice as likely as men to develop PTSD.
Extreme Trauma and PTSD
▪ PTSD may develop following exposure to extreme trauma.
▪ Extreme trauma is a terrifying event or ordeal that includes actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence
▪ Exposure includes directly experienced or witnessing the trauma, learning about a close family or friend experiencing a violent or accidental event, or has experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of a traumatic event
▪ The stress caused by trauma can affect all aspects of a person’s life including mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
My two cents: The other kind of PTSD not listed, is Complex PTSD.
Complex PTSD develops because of repeated traumas over a long period of time.
An entire childhood of abuse is more complex then a simple event.
For added harm, the mind is not develop when the abuse takes place.
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PTSD - A Way Out.com 