Post-traumatic stress disorder

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Technically post-traumatic stress disorder is a type of anxiety disorder, a class of issues that also includes panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, phobias and separation anxiety disorder, but it's worth its own mention because women are twice as likely to develop it than men, and about four times as likely to get it chronically, according to Jennifer Wolkin, PhD, a NYC-based licensed clinical health and neuropsychologist.
It's not that women have more traumatic experiences in general, but we do tend to have more of certain types of trauma, such as sexual abuse and assault, which are associated with greater risk for PTSD. How we respond to the ordeal can make a case of PTSD worse. "Compared with male trauma survivors, women tend to react with self-blame, believing that their incompetence led to the trauma," Wolkin explains. On top of that, we'll use coping skills, consciously or unconsciously, that are not helpful—such as mentally disengaging or suppressing the upsetting memories. "This seemingly gender-specific expression of emotional distress post-trauma might explain greater rates of PTSD in women," says Wolkin, who blogs at BrainCurves.
It's also possible that women are more vulnerable to PTSD because we're more likely to have started out with a higher baseline of depression and anxiety, Wolkin adds.