These are the causes that can contribute to developing PTSD or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. There are many factors—too many to list—so this is a condensed version that is meant to provide you with some guidelines.
Potential Causes of PTSD or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:
- Compromised attachment bonds and child abuse: neglect, abandonment, misattunement, being unwanted, family secrets, debt, divorce, depressed or addicted parents, ongoing verbal and physical abuse.
- Sexual abuse, ritual abuse, rape
- Loss
- Bullying
- Medical: hospitalizations, surgeries, chronic illness, invasive medical procedures, anesthesia, burns, poisoning.
- Fetal distress and traumatic birth.
- Accidents: falls, high impact accidents (including auto accidents), head injury, electrocution.
- Suffocation: drowning, strangulation.
- Attack: rape, war, bombings, physical abuse, mugging, molestation, physical injury, stabbing, gunshot wounds, animal attacks.
- Natural and man-made disasters: earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, floods, terrorism, dislocation from the natural world and community.
- Horror: Seeing an accident (especially with blood, gore, and dismemberment), watching someone else being abused, raped, killed or tortured, being responsible for killing or hurting someone.
- Torture, systematic abuse.
- Prolonged periods of stress.
- Narcissistic Abuse
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