Although I've written about PTSD before, let me just remind folks that PTSD symptoms cluster into three large groups.
Dr. Jonathan Shay, a leading PTSD expert who teaches chaplains, has called for PTSD to be reclassified as an injury rather than a disorder.
David Dobbs has reported that PTSD in the past may been overdiagnosed and viewed as a diagnostic construct, hindering the effective treatment of PTSD.
Dr. BRUCE DOHRENWEND: (New York State Psychiatric Institute) And there have been only two nation-wide studies of PTSD and Vietnam veterans, and these two studies came up with very, very different rates of PTSD.
He claims that he developed PTSD after being exposed to civil unrest during business trips abroad.
Among military populations, the diagnosis of PTSD has been hampered, quite publicly, by additional challenges.
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The 26-year-old added that until soldiers receive help, problems such as PTSD will continue to manifest.
Women who developed PTSD had lower than average levels of cortisol that those who did not.
Demond Taylor is an Iraq war veteran who suffers from PTSD, among other things.
Dr. Matthew Friedman runs the National Center for PTSD for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
And we've made it easier for veterans with PTSD to qualify for VA benefits.
He plans to eventually retire from the Army but use his ministry to help other PTSD sufferers.
In 2006, he was diagnosed by military doctors with chronic PTSD, according to Mr. Welch's medical records.
Remember, their new training program stresses that soldiers who get PTSD and other emotional disorders commonly misbehave.
We arranged for free, confidential treatment for PTSD, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, schools problems, and the like.
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And records and interviews with soldiers at Fort Carson show that problems remain in the treatment of PTSD.
But the novel finding was that the drunker people were, the less likely they were to develop PTSD.
Dr. STEPHEN KNORR (Chief Psychiatrist, Fort Carson Mental Health Center): PTSD is not an excuse for bad behavior.
It was the veterans themselves who fought for the creation of the diagnosis we now know as PTSD.
The authors of one book argued that of Vietnam veterans getting benefits for PTSD, 75 percent were fakers.
If you served in a combat theater and a VA doctor confirms a diagnosis of PTSD, that's enough.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has treated nearly a quarter of a million Afghanistan and Iraq veterans for PTSD.
Madigan psychiatrists had reversed PTSD diagnoses, overstating concerns that patients were misrepresenting symptoms.
The whole family also learned about PTSD and developed strategies to solve problems that often arise from combat-related injuries.
Thanks for putting on Air the plight of ex-service personal who have PTSD.
Then the NHS does not have the funds or services to treat PTSD.
And studies show that as many as one in six Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have reported symptoms of PTSD.
And at the University of South Florida College of Nursing, they're even testing a new therapy to treat PTSD.
Knorr says he wrote this memo to help commanders deal with soldiers who have mental health problems like PTSD.
The project sees combat veterans who are amputees or suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), training vulnerable people.
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