Post-traumatic stress disorder due to natural disasters. Benjamín Domínguez Trejo, an academic at the Faculty of Psychology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), said that people who have experienced a natural disaster of a great magnitude, such as the earthquakes of September 2017 in Mexico and hurricanes in the Caribbean , may being prone to post-traumatic stress and if not treated on time this disorder can last up to 20 years. What is PTSD? It is a severe emotional reaction to extreme psychological trauma caused by a situation that the person considers to endanger his or her own life or that of a person or group of people close to it, such as a strong earthquake, and the individual's mental defenses may not being able to assimilate it. Symptoms appear hours or days after the event. People who live a dangerous event are stressed, as Dr. Maricela Alvarado, Director of Counseling and Welfare of the Tecnológico de Monterrey of Mexico, city,...
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