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PTSD (I assume that's what you mean) is post-traumatic stress disorder. Go to http://www.anxietytreatment.ca/posttrauma.htm for more information.
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Could kids get PTDS from their fathers that served in Vietnam?
Post Traumatic Distress Syndrome (PTDS) is not hereditary. The word "Post" means AFTER; the word "Traumatic" means an injury produced by VIOLENCE; the word "Distress" means mental or physical SUFFERING...an anxiety or sorrow; the word "Syndrome" means a pattern of symptoms or a group of symptoms that when grouped together create a certain CONDITION. The term may have originated from the Vietnam War, but the term is definitely being used by any and all disorders today when it comes to "After" the incident; "Violence"; "Suffering"; and the individual's "condition." Examples: Car accidents, airplane accidents, boating accidents, bicycle accidents, skate boarding accidents, earthquakes, hurricanes, Bee-Stings, motorcycle accidents, hunting accidents, swimming accidents, football accidents...any one of those "incidents" involving after the fact (post), violence, suffering, and finally the "condition" can result in the individual claiming PTDS. Hereditary=Being passed down from parent to child. Those normally involve the natural occurring attributes of the father and mother; such as height, or color of eyes and hair, etc.
