![]() ![]() ![]() PTSS is similar to PTSD in that people who experience both often avoid certain places, people, or activities and events that may remind them of the trauma or experience. PTSS, in short, describes the multigenerational trauma and injustices experienced by African Americans - from slavery to the recent deaths of Black citizens at the hands of police, behavioral health therapist Dr. is a theory that explains the etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African-American communities throughout the United States and the Diaspora,” according to DeGruy’s website. “It is a condition that exists as a consequence of multigenerational oppression of Africans and their descendants resulting from centuries of chattel slavery - a form of slavery which was predicated on the belief that African Americans were inherently/genetically inferior to whites.” DeGruy wrote the ground-breaking book, “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing” and says she coined the PTTS phrase. ![]()
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