Why Veterans Don’t Report PTSD Symptoms and Why They Eventually Do

Why Veterans Don’t Report PTSD Symptoms and Why They Eventually Do

Ten or more years after combat deployment. That’s how long it takes for combat veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to file a claim for PTSD with the Veteran’s Administration. I can’t “prove this” by research, but this is what I’ve been seeing since I started...
PTSD and Trauma Memory: It’s A Neuropsychological Injury

PTSD and Trauma Memory: It’s A Neuropsychological Injury

Remember that very old commercial from the 1980’s? Partnership for a drug free America?   Yeah. So the same thing can be said about what makes PTSD different from any other mental health condition. The vivid sensory memory of traumatic events, called trauma...