Title: Mental Health Impact of Rape
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Content: If 13% of American women have been raped and 31% of rape victims have developed PTSD, then 3.8 million adult American women have had rape-related PTSD (RR-PTSD): If 11% of all rape victims have PTSD, then an estimated 1.3 million American women have RR-PTSD. I f 683,000 women are raped each year, approximately 211,000 will develop RR-PTSD annually
Other Mental Health Problems
Major depression is a problem affecting many women, not just rape victims. However, 30% of rape victims had experienced at least one major depressive episode in their lifetimes, and 21% of all rape victims were experiencing a major depressive episode at the time of assessment: By contrast, only 10% of women never victimized by violent crime had ever had a major depressive episode; and only 6% had a major depressive episode when assessed. Rape victims were three times more likely than non-victims of crime to have ever had a major depressive episode (30% Vs 10%). Also, they were 3.5 times more likely to be currently experiencing a major depressive episode (21% Vs 6%). Some mental heath problems are life threatening. When asked if they ever thought seriously about committing suicide: