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Do we all have PTSD?: Mental health in an age of racial terror
Experience of both egregious acts of injustice and microaggressions and even visual exposure to such events causes racial trauma with the familiar symptoms of PTSD–depression, fear based distrust of surroundings, anxiety, hyper alertness and angry outbursts when triggered. While author…
Read MoreLingering Fallout from Trauma
Nicholas Bakalar reports in the New York Times (Tuesday, December 5, 2017, p. D4) that the trauma experienced by 46,877 Finnish children who were evacuated to Sweden between 1940 and 1944 affected their female children, who “were twice as likely…
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