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  • Title: Media triggers of post-traumatic stress disorder 50 years after the Second World War.
    Author: Hilton C.
    Journal: Int J Geriatr Psychiatry; 1997 Aug; 12(8):862-7. PubMed ID: 9283932.
    Abstract:
    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may present many years after the original trauma. Case studies of two elderly patients are described. Both had experienced life-threatening combat situations and witnessed intense suffering during the Second World War. Marked distress was triggered by the media commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war. PTSD patients often avoid talking of their traumatic experiences because of associated distress. Without taking a military and trauma history from elderly patients the diagnosis is likely to be missed.
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