post-traumatic stress

Jack Darkes, director of the USF Psychological Services Center, says post-traumatic stress reactions after natural disasters are not necessarily indicative of a mental health disorder.

Besides children being injured in the actual event, physical symptoms may manifest as an increase of headaches or stomachaches. But for mental health, the hallmark symptom is post-traumatic stress.

WLRN is looking at the impact of children and teens killed by guns in South Florida through the voices of some of the people who are most affected. You...