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...
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...
As a mental health provider, I have been working closely with people experiencing post traumatic stress since 1981. By the mid-1990s, PTSD specialists and the general public accepted that violent, life threatening events profoundly affect the survivor, regardless of...
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