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What Kinds of Events Can Cause PTSD? Reliving the events Avoiding thoughts or
Traumatic events include physical or sexual violence, serious in- that caused PTSD feelings about the events
Author: Michele Spoont, PhD The JAMA Patient Page is a public service of JAMA. The information and
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