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PTSD versus Resilience

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What allows a reported 45 % (according to the article on PTSD in the New England Journal of Medicine – written by Rachel Yehuda, Ph. D.) of rape victims not to experience PTSD? (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) I am fascinated, especially in light of the moving letter  from the young woman in the Stanford rape case, that any woman would be able to move on with her life without crushing psychomedical reverb. I imagine, aside from the 55 percent who experience PTSD, that a significant portion still experience long term debilitating consequences. Depression, nightmares, and health complications aren't restricted to PTSD diagnoses. I'm reading the Yehuda article as closely as I can. It's dense stuff.  “Patients with chronic PTSD have increased circulating levels of norepinephrine and increased reactivity of a2-adrenergic receptors. These alterations, in tandem with the finding that thyroid hormone levels are increased in patients with PTSD, may help explain

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