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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Ruby Wax explores what daily life with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is like. She looks at the causes and symptoms of PTSD as well as how managing and treating the condition can help people to cope. Paul reveals how traumatic events in childhood still haunt him.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Paul confides in Ruby about his daily flashbacks. Read the text version.

About Ruby Wax


Ruby Wax majored in psychology at University of California, Berkeley. She later moved to England and launched a successful career as a comedian and presenter. Ruby has trained as a psychotherapist and is studying for an MA in Neuroscience.

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