PTSD and Families

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop in survivors of disturbing or dangerous events and causes chronic and debilitating anxiety. Moreover, the symptoms of PTSD often put considerable strains on a trauma victim’s family. Traumatic stress can profoundly change a victim’s personality. The afflicted family member may become more withdrawn, cold and irritable. In severe cases, …

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PTSD Myths Busted

There are a lot of misconceptions out there about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Make sure you know fact from fiction; here are some widespread PTSD myths debunked: Myth: PTSD isn’t a ‘real’ illness. PTSD is a psychological disease that occurs when someone lives through a traumatic event. Research has shown surviving life-threatening or extremely disturbing …

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Could All Mental Illnesses Have a Common Link Inside the Brain?

Researchers have discovered a similar pattern of grey-matter loss in the brain across a broad range of psychiatric disorders, suggesting that mental illnesses with differing symptoms could arise from the same neurological basis. Their findings challenge the assumption of differentiating mental disorders by symptoms rather than by brain pathology. Dr. Amit Etkin of Stanford University, …

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How Changing Your Lifestyle Could Help PTSD

If you have PTSD, making changes to your lifestyle could help reduce your symptoms. Here are some positives steps you can take to deal with PTSD: Reach out to other survivors: PTSD survivors’ organizations, including Veterans organizations, can be a source of support from people who understand what you’re going through. Knowing that someone else …

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Five Tips if Someone You Love has PTSD

People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often feel so many strong and negative emotions that they have difficulty expressing themselves and communicating their needs. That is why, if you have a loved one with PTSD, it is especially important for you to know how to react to the condition’s symptoms. With a little insight and …

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Imaging Differentiates PTSD and Mild Brain Injury

Right now, it is difficult for clinicians to make a diagnosis between PTSD and mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) since patients experience similar symptoms and the conditions are unable to be detected by normal structural neuroimaging. However, using hybrid imaging with positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT), researchers are able to differentiate between the …

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Telemedicine Collaborative Care Helps Vets with PTSD

Through a telemedicine-based collaborative care model, veterans with PTSD who live in rural areas improved upon their clinical outcomes. Of the 500,000 military veterans enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) with PTSD, many of them live in rural areas, making it difficult for them to engage in treatments. For the study, John C. Fortney, …

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Pregnancy Risk in Women with PTSD

According to a new study, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) dramatically increases risk of premature birth. From examining 16,000 births involving US military veterans between 2000 and 2012, researchers found that having PTSD in the year before delivery increased the chance of premature birth by 35 percent. Recently, PTSD was found to be associated with an …

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