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Ten warning signs for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

BRATTLEBORO — • Dreams and recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, and perceptions

• Acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring, including a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, and flashback episodes

• Intense psychological distress over actions or things that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event

• Feelings of detachment or estrangement from others

• Inability to express loving feelings

• Sense of a foreshortened future (for example, does not expect to have a career, marriage, children or a normal life span)

• Difficulty falling or staying asleep

• Irritability or outbursts of anger

• Difficulty concentrating

• Efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with the trauma or activities, places or people that arouse recollections of the trauma

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