Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists has endorsed national guidelines for PTSD

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-28/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-guidelines-to-help-emergency-work/6890764 In what has been hailed a “world-first”, a group of Australian clinicians and researchers have developed national guidelines for the treatment and diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder in frontline emergency workers. At least 8,000 police, fire and ambulance officers are believed to be living with post-traumatic stress disorder — or PTSD, as it’s commonly…

Ecstasy Potential Use To Treat PTSD

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mdma-psychotherapy-may-be-legal-in-just-five-years_56266075e4b08589ef4902ca If you think of MDMA, the drug often cut with other substances and sold as “Molly” or Ecstasy, as just an illicit party drug, think again. A growing body of research suggests that it and other psychedelic drugs can be effective treatments for ailments ranging from post-traumatic stress disorder to social anxiety in autistic…

Bully victims more likely to suffer night terrors

Bully victims more likely to suffer night terrors and nightmares https://t.co/UpRu26GPHH — PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) October 23, 2015 “Consistent with previous studies, being a female, having persistent sleep problems, and emotional and behaviour problems in childhood additionally increased the risk for parasomnias at age 12 years.” Dr Lereya, from the Department of Psychology, added that stress…

The Suicide Gene ?

https://www.inverse.com/article/6793-scientists-discovered-a-gene-that-might-predict-suicide-and-ptsd-risk Scientists at Boston University have found a gene that could help predict the risk of suicide and PTSD. As they describe in their recent Molecular Psychiatry paper, the gene SKA2 tends to be “switched off” in the brains of people who die from suicide. The risk of suicide for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans is…

RSA’s $2.5m Poppy Day collection helps PTSD

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11514775 “I went to Bosnia in 1995. When I got home I was a veteran. I was younger than my grandfather was when he returned from World War II. “The perception that a veteran is someone old is incorrect.” Mr Compain said older vets suffered physical injuries but these days, even with peacekeeping missions being…

The Politics of Challenged Disorders and Drug Development

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-a-lieberman-md/what-do-hypoactive-sexual_1_b_8160726.html Not until Vietnam did the military and medical establishments finally take seriously and accept the legitimacy of the injurious effects of traumatic experience. Prior to Vietnam, soldiers suffering from PTSD risked being viewed as cowards and malingerers, in some cases court martialed and executed. In fact, the diagnosis of PTSD was not included in…

The number of war veterans in New Zealand is growing

Mr Compain said older vets suffered physical injuries but these days, even with peacekeeping missions being the most common overseas assignments for our troops, post-traumatic stress disorder was rife. “I have a friend who was in the first push to East Timor. He had to recover the bodies of teenage girls who had been molested…

Helping Yourself: How To Deal With PTSD

Helping Yourself: How To Deal With PTSD http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/7337/20150914/self-treatment-deal-ptsd.htm Shared from Google News & Weather In an article written by Monique Polak for Montreal Gazette, she featured a psychologist specializes in treating PTSD named Monica Oala. The latter gave some warning signs for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) such as flashbacks and nightmare; disturbed sleep; mood changes;…

I’ve been very conscious of not letting PTSD rule my life

http://www.3aw.com.au/news/its-like-another-job-victorian-cops-living-with-ptsd-20150914-gjm0hi.html Sergeant Lamb attended a drug raid in Hawthorn in August of 1990, and was involved in a physical altercation with an offender. They wrestled over Lamb’s firearm and it discharged, shooting one of his colleagues, Ben Piper, in the chest. Piper was lucky to survive. “I wasn’t sure it was my gun and opening…