Traumatic events that may trigger the disorder include violent personal assaults, natural or human-caused disasters, accidents, or military combat. PTSD wasn’t officially named until 1980, but the first documented case was reported nearly 4,000 years ago in Egypt by a physician who noted a victim’s “hysterical” reaction to trauma. The debilitating, sometimes life-threatening symptoms are one reason that dozens of studies on the disorder are under way, from Israel to the Netherlands and in several major U. Decades after they served in Vietnam, thousands of veterans still suffer the trauma-linked PTSD symptoms. read more

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