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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Treatments

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Treatments

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Treatments

Witnessing death, physical or sexual assault, accidents, child abuse, combat, and some other traumatic events are common events that create PTSD in about 5.2 million adults during a given year. PTSD, stands for port-traumatic stress disorder, it is a severe anxiety disorder. Some of its symptoms are: numbness, guilt, nightmares, hallucinations, insomnia, self- destruction. There isn’t a specific medication to treat PTSD , but a few drugs have been proved to reduce this symptoms. PTSD is a big topic of interest due to the fact that a large percentage of the veterans have experienced it.

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