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Kids Suffer PTSD After A Disaster, Study Finds

Kids Ptsd

First Posted: 07/21/10 01:28 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:05 PM ET

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Popular wisdom has long held that young children survive traumatic events better than adults do, in part because they suffer less. Being too young to understand fully the nature of what's happening around them -- during war or natural disaster, for instance -- they should bounce back with much more resilience.

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Popular wisdom has long held that young children survive traumatic events better than adults do, in part because they suffer less. Being too young to understand fully the nature of what's happening ar...
Popular wisdom has long held that young children survive traumatic events better than adults do, in part because they suffer less. Being too young to understand fully the nature of what's happening ar...
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Cherie King
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09:14 PM on 07/25/2010
Duh!
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suemj
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08:40 PM on 07/23/2010
I mean really! No study needs to be done for you laboratory dim-wits to come to that conclusion!
D-u-hhhhh! Kids suffer after any trauma bright survey-takers.
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timetocookdinner
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01:57 AM on 07/22/2010
yeah, that's a HUGE shocker. "Turns out, children are almost like regular human beings!" I guess they have to make these idiot-statistically-significant studies to get funding from people who only speak Science. Hopefully some of this funding ends up helping actual children and not just the careers of the "experts."
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bleubunny
Technically, we were beyond survival.
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06:55 AM on 07/23/2010
Yeah how stupid.
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BikeFreak
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12:34 AM on 07/22/2010
ForFuckSake!

Someone actually needed to complete a study to figure this out?
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