1. Everyone who experiences a traumatic incident will develop post-traumatic stress
You don't have to take my word for it. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point and other articles and books, has an interesting article that challenges the myth of post-traumatic stress. Check it out by clicking the link below.
http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_11_08_a_trauma.html
2. People must have trauma therapy to get over post-traumatic stress when they develop it
3. The only effective treatment for post-traumatic stress is long-term trauma treatment in which you have to re-experience or remember everything that happened during your traumatic incident(s)
4. There are only negative effects from trauma
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