"Community violence remains pervasive. While Pittsburgh has a lower homicide rate than the national average, that means nothing to people who live in communities where gunshots ring out regularly, where schools are constantly placed on lockdown and where murder and gunshot injuries are the norm.
"If you live in a dangerous environment and you are aware of it as a young child and you become aware of it through people you know being killed, you have heightened awareness of the danger around you," said Judith Cohen, medical director at the Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents at Allegheny General Hospital.
"And you may through that rewiring of your brain and your danger alert system become constantly on guard for danger. And that is a form of trauma."...
http://wesa.fm/post/community-violence-post-traumatic-stress-can-be-hidden-wound
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