A community portal about Post-traumatic stress disorders with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Post-traumatic stress disorder is a term for certain psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with...
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A community portal about Post-traumatic stress disorders with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Post-traumatic stress disorder is a term for certain psychological consequences of exposure to, or confrontation with, stressful experiences that the person experiences as highly traumatic. The experience must involve actual or threatened death, serious physical injury, or a threat to physical and/or psychological integrity. It is occasionally called post-traumatic stress reaction to emphasize that it is a routine result of traumatic experience rather than a manifestation of a pre-existing psychological weakness on the part of the patient.
When a veteran turns to crime
He has posttraumatic stress disorder; a VA counselor called him "broken."
GENE J. PUSKAR / Associated Press
Windy
Horner holds a portrait of her husband, Nick (left); Laurie Claar holds
one of her son Matthew. Both had posttraumatic stress disorder: Claar
killed himself; Horner is charged in deaths. HOLLIDAYSBURG,
Pa. - When the envelope arrived, Windy Horner was talking with her
husband, Nick - Windy on a cell phone, Nick in the Blair County jail.
Windy... Read Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Veterans who suffered physical injuries or developed post-traumatic stress disorder after combat in Iraq or Afghanistan may suffer recurrent headaches, a new study suggests. In surveys of 308 veterans, researchers found that those who had suffered combat injuries were at greater risk of developing migraine headaches. Meanwhile, those who screened positive for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) had elevated rates of both migraine and tension-type headaches. The... Read Full Story
Female soldiers and others who served behind front lines have long complained about how hard it is to prove their combat experience when applying for disability due to post-traumatic stress disorder. That could soon change. The Veterans Affairs Department has proposed reducing the paperwork required for veterans to show their experience caused combat-related stress. Even just the fear of hostile action would be sufficient, as long as a VA psychologist or psychiatrist agreed. The VA says the... Read Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For people who suffer whiplash in a car accident, feelings of being wronged may raise their risk of lingering post-traumatic stress, a new study suggests. The study, which followed 112 patients in rehab for whiplash injuries, found that 45 percent had symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when they started treatment. And those with a greater sense of "perceived injustice" about their situation were more likely than others to still have PTSD symptoms at... Read Full Story
The new film THE MESSENGER would be much better served with the title NEXT OF KIN. While THE MESSENGER could refer to any number of movies -- and is an unmemorable title -- NEXT OF KIN is powerful, memorable and pinpoints the emotional rollercoaster of this compelling film. This film does NOT bash the military or the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead it provides a window into the lives of military personnel and their families who are forever changed by death. As those of you who are... Read Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are typical after deployment to a war zone, and may even represent a healthy reaction to stress, but can lead to problems with mental functioning if they persist, new research in Iraq vets suggests. Past research has demonstrated that people exposed to life-threatening situations will show changes in their nervous and hormonal systems, Dr. Jennifer J. Vasterling of the VA Boston Healthcare System and her colleagues... Read Full Story
Recent survey results reveal that the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has increased( )4 to 7 times following the invasion of Iraq. The study, conducted by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the University of California, San Francisco,… Read Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Veterans who come home from Iraq and Afghanistan with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health diagnoses are hit with a double whammy: They also have greater risk factors for heart disease, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. PTSD related to military service has been linked to heart disease in the past, but, to the authors' knowledge, the present study is the first to examine the association for veterans of... Read Full Story
Synthetic marijuana reduced post-traumatic stress disorder in rats
By -- Robert Preidt
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FRIDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Marijuana may help people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study.
PTSD affects 10 to 30 percent of people who experience a traumatic event, such as a car accident or terror attack. These people... Read Full Story
My father, of blessed memory, was a respected Lieutenant with the NY State Troopers. And a Type II Diabetic, as was his mother and her whole family. That said, he would never, ever have done this. It is so horrible when bad apples are encouraged to be worse... and below this I will tell you why I find this so personally scary. On the other hand, having given some seminars to law enforcement officers on the dynamics of domestic violence, I can say that many police officers do not get it about... Read Full Story
