"It’s not just veterans that are dealing with OSI’s [Occupational Stress Injuries]. Childhood trauma, even trauma of the mother during pregnancy, can affect a child’s development. With family violence, poverty, parental addiction, and increasing isolationism, many children are affected and experience interrupted development and an ever compounding backlash of mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, social and economic deficits as they age.
"The solutions are not easy, but include taking time to understand how a person’s history has brought them to the place where they are creating such “difficulty” for others that they are labelled with a disorder, and as a community, accepting some accountability for that. They include making time and space in our communities for sharing in people’s stories, their pain, and ultimately their healing...."
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/2013/11/21/ptsd-often-an-unrecognized-health-issue
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