Dr. Ida Fonkoue

However, after she completed the survey, because although we don't diagnose, we have a survey that we give our participant to determine the severity of the different symptoms that I mentioned earlier, like hypervigilance, avoidance, hyperreactivity, sleep problems that usually come from it, which is part of the re-experiencing.

Now, after she completed the survey, she asked me a question.

She said, well, can I complete another survey?

And I said, why?

She said, because I feel like I had two traumatic events in my life.

I have what happened to me.

And I had the trauma that I went through from listening to my mother share her own traumatic events.

event while she was in the military.

So her mother was in the military and I'll probably touch on this later, which is one of the reasons why I study civilian women, civilian as opposed to military.

But her mother was in the military and experienced trauma that was not related to war.

It was within the military.

And later on in her life, her mother felt like she was old enough for her to share this experience with her.

However, this ended up being very traumatic for her listening to her mother tell her own trauma.

So, yes, it is.

You don't have to.

And that's why one of the questions that we ask in the questionnaire is, did it happen to you?

Was it linked to a threat of death or not?

Because

Many people probably were traumatized by watching the video of George Floyd being murdered.

And we are around the anniversary of that right now.