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Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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Dr. Barbara Rothbaum, an expert in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), describes the symptoms of this disorder. PTSD commonly affects war veterans but may also affect those who've experienced other traumatic events such as terrorist bombings, disasters or abuse.

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BraveHeart: Help for Veterans with PTSD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opUWZ83nWSI

Innovative Treatments for PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury Presented to Veterans Affairs Committee
http://shared.web.emory.edu/whsc/news/releases/2010/07/treatments-for-ptsd-an...

The Emotional Fallout of War (Emory Magazine article, Spring 2008
http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/2008/spring/ptsd.html

After Iraq: Treating PTSD (Podcast, MP3, 3.64 MB)
http://whsc.emory.edu/home/multimedia/podcasts/mp3/healthbytes_ptsd_study.mp3

Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program, Emory University
http://www.psychiatry.emory.edu/PROGRAMS/Trauma/

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  • @iditarod9 It's unfortunate you feel that way. Denying that PTSD is a problem helps no one. Every branch of the military, as well as the VA, acknowledges it is real and constitutes a major and growing problem for returning troops. While you were able to move on after your service but a certain proportion of veterans cannot.

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  • @iditarod9 I used alcohol for 2 years after Iraq as medicine and I am going to the VA today for PTSD. I hope that you have a job and can help pay all my fellow service members disability. Get to the doctor soon.

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  • @lisachociej sorry to hear about your pain. I have had problems (PTSD) my whole life from child abuse. It can be hell, i know. try therapy.

  • I have PTSD due to rape from my brother.

    It has cost me marriage, my two sons, EVERYTHING.

  • I am not a vetran, but unfortunatly im a 13 year old girl and the funny part about this is I learned I have PTSD from happy tree friends. (I love flippy btw..) anyways my tramatization has been because of my mother and my past couple years old living.. im VERY easily startled and it seems that my nightmares are either always just black pictures or it's about gore,my gore, I also dream of being taken away from my dad by force to be locked ina box, and wow my mom tried to take me away from my home

  • why dont they send my son back to puerto rico and have him treated here and be near his family he all alone in georgia and nows no one he is not a criminal hes a good man ,father, son and husband he is a police officer in puerto rico why does the army treat him like a criminal and have him in jail giving him pills over medicating him he is not a criminal he is a patiente please send my son back home

  • my son a medic of the national guard of puerto rico served in iraq and in january 2 ,2011 he and two of his friends were sent on a mission and they were bombed and his two friends died my son has been in fort gorden georgia since march of 2011 in treatment and they are giving him more then 23 pills a day since last month november 7 the army comander put my son in a county jail and as of today is still there pending a court marshel is that the way to treat a soldier with ptsd i am very worried

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  • I don't know much, but I do know that it is hard. No-one is weak just because they did or saw something that stays with them. There is ALWAYS someone to talk to, no matter how F*cked up it may be.

  • @grettagrids I am always triggered by Gunshot sounds but I'm not in the war.. but I'm traumatized from the age of 5 to now...

  • @doraemon8061 PTSD is no joke! I have it too from several bad experiences and am afraid to sleep or leave my home. Don't slep in the dark and have chimes attached to all doors. In fact I stay up ALL NIGHT till daylinght comes... I just can't sleep. Have to be careful what I watch on here even or it triggers me:(

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