Posted by Larry Hoover on April 10, 2003, at 10:56:50
In reply to Can you have PTSD w/o a traumatic life event?, posted by jerrympls on April 8, 2003, at 22:31:05
> Does that make sense? I'm just wondering....?
I've been thinking about how to reply to this.....
Early childhood events can cause permanent changes in stress-reactivity, even in the absence of identifiable single traumatic incidents. The pattern of the experiences can add up to trauma. Later in life, exposure to trauma can trigger massive PTSD reactions, but "the pump was primed" many years before. That's my experience.
Lar
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