Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Children who survive urban warfare suffer from PTSD, too
Countless children in San Francisco’s toughest neighborhoods experience murder, violence and trauma - an often unavoidable consequence of living in an urban war zone. The violence, layers of it overlapping year after year, can eventually take up residence in the children’s minds. Like combat veterans, they develop post-traumatic stress disorder - the soldier’s sickness. As many as one-third of children living in our country’s violent urban neighborhoods have PTSD, according to recent research and the country’s top child trauma experts - nearly twice the rate reported for troops returning from war zones in Iraq.
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