Last season NBC aired a program called "The Game of Silence" in which 4 best friends who once served time in a juvenile detention center as a result of a well-intentioned but reckless caper are reunited by a traumatic occurrence.
Most participants indicated that their involvement in a traumatic occurrence was a springboard for growth that enabled them to develop new perspectives on life and living.
The responses, reactions and abilities of those immediately responsible for a child influence the child's ability to cope with a traumatic occurrence.
Though it is recognized that PTSD can manifest from either a single-event or chronic trauma [ 18], many conflict-related PTSD accounts observe a subsequent return to a "normal" environment after the traumatic occurrence – such as a soldier returning to peaceful civilian life [ 3, 15].
As McCourt sharply observes, Stonewall, "like the Civil War in the history of the Republic, provided the dividing line and break in the history of queer experience, and which, like all traumatic occurrences, rendered the beliefs and assumptions of the preceding generation naïve, complacent and obsolete in the eyes of their successors".
As a result of indirect exposure to the specific traumatic occurrence via close contact with the survivor, individuals may experience similar symptoms as the survivor.
If you do things halfway right and there are no unforeseen traumatic occurrences, like crucial losses or undue stresses, chances are good — better than 50-50 — thet the child of a depressed parent will grow up to be a nondepressed adult.
PTSD follows traumatic occurrences outside the range of common human experience such as violent physical assaults, torture, accidents, rape or natural disasters and is characterized by a typical symptom pattern of intrusions, persistence of trauma, relevant stimuli avoidance, emotional numbing and physiological hyperarousal.
According to SBU (The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care) providing cognitive behavior therapy 1 3 months after a traumatic event reduces the occurrence of PTSD in states of intensive stress [ 8].
In addition it has been shown that pregnancy occurrence after a traumatic birth experience may also result in the seek abortion, or request for unnecessary cesarean section in subsequent pregnancies [ 7, 8].
In contrast to our findings, Wullstein et al. found the occurrence of a traumatic cause of brain death to be higher in those pancreas grafts that were refused for medical reasons.
