WHAT ARE SOME TRAUMATIC EVENTS THAT CAN CAUSE POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER?
Randall Marshall, M.D. Some of the kinds of experiences that can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, a serious and impairing anxiety disorder are: • Combat experience in a war • Being involved in a life-threatening accident • Being involved in a fire, flood, or natural disaster • Witnessing someone being badly injured or killed • Being raped (someone had sexual intercourse with you when you did not want to by threatening you or using some degree of force) • Being sexually molested (someone touched or felt your genital when you did not want them to) • Being seriously physically attacked or assaulted • Being physically abused as a child • Being seriously neglected as a child • Being threatened with a weapon, held captive, or kidnapped Randall Marshall, M.D.
