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Car Accidents — An Everyday Event

In contrast to other extreme life events, car accidents are so common that we often mistakenly take them for granted as a part of everyday life. A dateline television program estimates that an auto accident occurs every two seconds in the United States. In other countries such as Israel, for example, the incidence is two-and-a-half times higher. Yet accidents can cause far-reaching reactions in our bodies that disrupt our quality of life, leave us unable to work, cost thousands of dollars in treatment, and exact untold hours of chronic pain or suffering. Some of these symptoms are easily recognized as the result of the accident. Others are not so easily recognized, but may be no less debilitating.

According to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis there were over six million auto accidents and over three million people injured in 1999 in the United States alone. A study reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry (April, 1999) showed that most auto accident victims showed symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, that symptoms remain high more than nine mounts after the accident, and that women are most likely than men to suffer lingering symptoms. Histories of trauma or depression also increase the risk of lasting trauma, according to the study. Of course, not everyone who is in an auto accident suffers from Post Traumatic Stress. Post traumatic stress reactions will vary depending on the intensity of the traumatic event, previously trauma, your support system available after the traumatic event, your psychological history and genetic resiliency.

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