Inc. S cience is just beginning to understand the impact on the human body caused by severe traumatic stress. Wives and children of combat veterans with PTSD often get PTSD themselves. After the crisis has passed the endocrine system and neurochemistry may stay stuck at emergency alert, pumping beta endorphins into the blood, craving adrenaline, unable to return spontaneously to a state of calm.
Violence begets physiological changes that often result in more violence.
It is time to find a cure for America's violent epidemic. Inc. Copyright 1994-1999 Dendrite Forest, Inc.