Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is best understood as a traumatic stress injury. It involves reactions to extreme stress and trauma that can affect your thinking, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviour.
These are natural responses to stress that usually subside when the stressful event passes. But with PTSD they get “locked on”.
Just like physical injuries, we as humans can be more or less resilient to stress injuries depending on a number of factors.
But none of us are immune, and just like elite sports people who can be injured at the peak of their fitness, even the toughest of first responders can incur a traumatic stress injury if a particular thing hits at a particular time.
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