PTSD in Teens and Children: It’s Real | AAP

Teens and even young children can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. What’s PTSD like, and how do you know if you or someone you care about might have it? Pediatrician David Hill describes PTSD, what causes it and how trauma-informed care can help.

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00:00 PTSD: We've all heard of it
00:14 PTSD is a serious psychological problem
00:29 PTSD can happen in very young children
00:39 What can lead to PTSD?
00:55 Frightening events leave an imprint on our brains
1:30 If you have real PTSD symptoms: how to get help
1:41 Trauma-informed care

[DanielTransitioned]

i have no idea why this is so underrated but thank you for this video!!

[BlackHatTy]

I fought this for awhile thinking Im not a soldier so it's irrelevant to me. When I was a kid I had to hide in a closet as my father tried to murder my mother. It broke me, but I figured kids went through worse. Finally I went to therapy and realized how much it really impacted me, along with all the other things I witnessed, this was the worst. Child PSTD is real.

[williamjhunter]

How would you rate a 3 year old boy who saw his neighborhood destroyed in the 1967 race riot in Detroit, then having your grandfather die from the stress of that, then watch your parents marriage fall apart, then have your best loving family member your grandmother moved across the country and meanwhile you are bullied at school every day having stunted growth and restricted to your bedroom at home, not allowed to have friends with a no talking rule and finally forced to enlist in the Army weighing less than a hundred pounds the day you turn 18. Yes...all that and much more happened to me in addition to being trafficked by pedophiles on fishing camping trips during all that.
My blood type was Cortisol.