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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 —Continue Reading

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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 disorderContinue Reading

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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 DepartmentContinue Reading

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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 forContinue Reading

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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,Continue Reading

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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 ofContinue Reading

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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 teenageContinue Reading

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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 andContinue Reading

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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 itContinue Reading