How PTSD is caused?

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PTSD is believed to be caused by psychological trauma.These traumas may be in the form of experiences or witnesses in childhood or adult physical, emotional or sexual abuse. In addition, experiencing or witnessing an event perceived as life-threatening such as physical assault, adult experiences of sexual assault, accidents, drug addiction, illnesses, medical complications, or the experience of, or employment in occupations exposed to war such as soldiers or disaster such as emergency service workers. These traumatic events that cause PTSD symptoms to develop include violent assault, kidnapping, torture, being a hostage, prisoner of war or concentration camp victim, experiencing a disaster, bad car accidents or getting a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness. Even,children develops the PTSD symptoms by experiencing sexually traumatic events like age-inappropriate sexual experiences.Its just that the amount of dissociation that follows directly after a trauma predicts PTSD. Individuals that are more likely to dissociate during a traumatic event are considerably more likely to develop chronic PTSD.