Who+Does+it+Affect?

The people that can be affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are people of all ages, genders, and cultures. The people in which PTSD is most common are in soldiers, refugees that have experienced major traumas, and individuals that have gone through childhood sexual or physical abuse. PTSD can also affect people who are survivors of rape, natural disasters, and military service men and women.

The groups that are at a higher risk of getting PTSD are people in certain occupations, for example, emergency personnel doctors, nurses, paramedics, and firefighters; War zone veterans including war service veterans and peacekeeping forces will most likely go on to experience post traumatic stress disorder; Women are twice as likely than men to get post traumatic stress disorder and it is still unclear as to why that is; Refugees are a group that are at a higher risk because when they are faced to leave their homeland, they are put under stress when experiencing moving difficulties; Aboriginal people in residential schools have gone through abuse, such as, physical abuse/sexual abuse/emotional abuse and because they became traumatized, that developed into PTSD. For Aboriginal people, it is now called Residential School Syndrome.
 * "Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect those who personally experience the catastrophe, those who witness it, and those who pick up the pieces afterwards, including emergency workers and law enforcement officers. It can even occur in the friends or family members of those who went through the actual trauma."