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  Human Trafficking and PTSD: Connections

  Posted on May 2, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  Professionals are learning that many women who are or have been sexually trafficked suffer from undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. Many survivors aren’t familiar with the symptoms. So What Is Trauma? Traumatologists at Intensive Trauma Therapy in Morgantown, West Virginia describe trauma is “anything that overwhelms the brain’s ability to cope. When something traumatic occurs, the […]

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