9/11: A Decade Later: PTSD Rate Still High Among City’s Survivors

Bobby Cuza
NY1.com
April 7, 2011

New York City resident Kathleen Waters says it pains her to go back to the World Trade Center site. She hasn’t returned since a single act of terrorism brought the towers down on September 11, 2001. The legal assistant escaped with her life after running down 86 flights of stairs from her Tower Two office.

“I look at the scenes where they show the hole in the building and I’m saying to myself, ‘Wow. I was right below that,’” says Waters.

A number of health experts say many survivors are still reliving the horrific events of that day. A joint study by the New York City Department of Health and Columbia University found that over 95 percent of 3,000 survivors surveyed reported at least one symptom of post traumatic stress disorder.

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This article was posted: Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 2:45 pm

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