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Roughly 3-4 percent of the world’s population struggles with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); the rate is certainly higher in certain parts of the world. But we also know that not everyone who experiences a trauma develops PTSD and that people who do struggle it with may have very different symptoms from each other. So why does this happen with PTSD?
Imagine that you were at home and you got a call saying that an important guest or the landlord is on their way over. You look around your kitchen and you can see that it’s a bit of a mess. Now if you had enough time you could organise your kitchen the way you like it, and put everything in the right place. But there’s no time for that, so instead you just grab everything that’s on a bench and throw it into any old cupboard. Within a few minutes, you have a kitchen that looks organised; there is nothing visible that is out of place and you get through the visit without anyone commenting on the state of the room. But later on, when you’re looking in the pots-and-pan cupboard for a saucepan, you find a tin of beans. And when you’re looking for the salt, you find some........