What to do if you think you (or a loved one) has PTSD:
of adolescents have met the criteria for the disorder, while a whopping 60.6% of children and teens have experienced or witnessed some form of victimization in the past year. While we often think about PTSD as applying only to people in the military, or people who have witnessed war, the reality is that traumatic events range much more of a gamut than that. Sexual assault, car crashes, the death of a loved one, any form of abuse, and much more are forms of trauma.
PTSD can feel incredibly alienating and scary. Though it’s easy to feel like you’re all alone, 70%—or roughly 223.4 million—of Americans have experienced some form of trauma in their lives, according to . Up to 20%, or 44.7 million, of those people develop PTSD, and approximately 8% of Americans have PTSD at any given time, which PTSD United points out is roughly equal to Texas' population.that teens may be more likely than adults to have PTSD. "We find that more teens suffer from PTSD than are formally diagnosed," said Monroe, who serves as the director of program development at Newport Academy.
According to PTSD United, one out of every nine women has PTSD, and women are twice as likely as men to develop the disorder. And according to the , one study found that almost all women who were raped—94%—experienced PTSD symptoms during the two weeks immediately following their traumatic experience. About a third were still reporting the symptoms nine months later.
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