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• n  an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images

• In Australia, Swinburne's panic-online and ptsd-online have been joined by e-Couch, for mood disorders, and MoodGYM, for depression, from the Australian National University's .

• posttraumatic stress disorder
• PTSD

News & Articles

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• Hearing Gunshots? Bill Blaylock Signs Book Deal with Pretty Road Press for Memoir on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ...
  June is PTSD Awareness Month and Pretty Road Press has used the opportunity to sign a book deal with author and Vietnam War veteran William J. Blaylock for his manuscript "Invisible: Living with PTSD's Unseen Wound," a memoir about his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition affecting up to 20 percent of Irag War vets and 20 percent of Vietnam War vets. (PRWeb June 13, 2013 ...
  June 13, 2013 - PRWeb
• Veterans’ Corner
  St. Clair — The need for identifying individuals that are struggling with PTSD and or TBI has never been greater. •Have had nightmares about the experience or thought about it when you did not want to?
  June 13, 2013 - St. Clair News-Aegis
• Still difficult for PTSD victims to get help
  It’s been more than three decades since post-traumatic stress disorder was recognized as a distinct medical diagnosis by the medical community and the federal government, but many veterans dealing with PTSD are still having trouble getting effective treatment.
  June 11, 2013 - Stars and Stripes

Quotes

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• Barbara Rothbaum in WNYT
  It gives us hope, because we've got good treatments for PTSD,said Barbara Rothbaum, a psychologist who heads a trauma recovery program at Emory University in Atlanta. "If we can relieve the PTSD and depression, I'm hoping we'll see...
• Donna Shalala in San Jose Mercury News
  The consequences of PTSD can be devastating,Shalala said. "The longer service members are in the field, the more likely they are to experience events, which can lead to symptoms of PTSD."
• John Edwards in International Herald Tribune
  I strongly believe we must restore the sacred contract we have with our veterans and their families, and that we must begin by reforming our system for treating PTSD. We also must act to remove the stigma from this disorder,Edwards said in...