Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can come from being a witness and participant in a war. Being forced to participate in some activity that you find wrong or against your principles.

Children that are sexually abused suffer from PTSD since they try to deal with the Trauma of the shame and pain while ill equiped to handle such an ordeal.

Adult children of abuse can continue to suffer from PTSD because they have the stress of trying to come to grips with the trauma of what happened as an as a child with a totally different perspective which erroneously makes them feel like they were a participant and not a victim.

Surviving an accident where you were gravely injured or the passenger killed. Especially if you feel you should have been in control of the situation like the driver of the car.

A pastor of a church using the worshipers trust to lure her into an affair, the guilt and stress of being placed in a situation that you find a sin could cause PTSD for the victim.

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