"Brannan Vines suffers symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. So does Caleb Vines, her husband. The difference between them is that Brannan is not a veteran. The trigger for her PTSD is the trauma suffered by her husband, says an article in Mother Jones....
"Trauma is really not something that happens to an individual," says Robert Motta, a clinical psychologist and psychology professor at Hofstra University who wrote a few of the many medical-journal articles about secondary trauma in Vietnam vets' families. "Trauma is a contagious disease; it affects everyone that has close contact with a traumatized person" in some form or another, to varying degrees and for different lengths of time."
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/03/12/daily-circuit-ptsd-families
See also video:
Intergenerational Trauma & Healing-Pt 1/3 (24 mins full)
http://acesconnection.com/video/intergenerational-trauma-healing-pt-1of3
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