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Post traumatic stress disorder

Actively pursuing triggers

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The CPD article on post traumatic stress disorder states that sufferers often avoid any association with the traumatic event in order to minimise unpleasant emotional responses, but I have heard that sometimes they will actively pursue triggers (eg, repeatedly watching television coverage of 9/11 attacks) in a belief that, by doing so, they

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