Stress is a common experience for many people. Stressful events can range from minor day-to-day challenges to more severe and potentially traumatic events. Findings released today from the Survey on Mental Health and Stressful Events (SMHSE) provide new insight into the most common potentially traumatic events that adults living in Canada have experienced and the connection these experiences have to symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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