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Posttraumatic stress disorder can come from lots of different kinds of traumas or events.

Dr. Matthew Yoder, Clinical Psychologist, explains what PTSD is.

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Another question I get is, you know, a person comes in

and they say, "I can't have PTSD, I wasn't in combat,"

or, "I can't have PTSD because

my experience really wasn't that bad."

And we've found that that's really just not the case,

that posttraumatic stress disorder can come from

lots of different kinds of traumas or events.

And in the same way, treatments for PTSD

can work pretty much regardless of what the original trauma

or the event that caused the PTSD is.

And so even if a person is a medic, or worked in a mortuary,

or experienced an accident during training

and it wasn't the typical combat trauma

that you think about with Veterans, you can still have PTSD,

and you could still get treated for PTSD.

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