What is PTSD, what causes it, and what is the most promising cure?
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PTSD is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
It can be caused by a large variety of traumatically stressful events.
The most commonly referenced cause is combat time in the military but causes can range from childhood abuse to car accidents to rape.
The exact causes and symptoms vary on a case by case basis but the general gist is that something really awful happened to you(sometimes an event, like watching a friend bleed out on the battle field; other times a situation, every time your dad came home drunk he beat you with a belt for no reason) and things tangentially related to the trauma will trigger you to feel like you are back in the trauma.
Edit: there is no “cure” but there are medications and therapies that can help people to live “normal” lives and not get triggered by unrelated events as often.
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