Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD was first recognized after the American Civil War and became far more common over WWII and the 1942 Coconut Grove Fire in Boston.

 

Symptoms

 

 

What causes post traumatic stress disorder?

 

Treatments

following an acute trauma, presence is the best thing for survivors. Don't necessarily try to do anything or fix everything, just be there through the experience.

Can be quite difficult if personality disorders have developed

 

Bibliography

Eric Lindemann "Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief" 1944