https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/02/04/ptsd-turned-my-husband-into-a-stranger.html I’ll always regret how I said goodbye when he left to report on the typhoon in the Philippines in 2013. I can’t recall exactly what I said, but I know I didn’t stop him. I let him go. And my Curty never came home. A man did return toContinue Reading
https://www.mentalhealth.org.nz/get-help/a-z/resource/45/post-traumatic-stress-disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological reaction to experiencing or witnessing a significantly stressful, traumatic or shocking event. This might be a car accident springfield il, a rape or other sexual abuse, an earthquake, or other natural disaster, or an attack. Any situation where there was a riskContinue Reading
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/01/fda-mdma-ptsd-final-trials The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the green light to phase three trials of MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, the final phase of validation required to turn the party drug into a legal medicine. The treatment involves giving patients the drug just three times –Continue Reading
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/george-michael-interview The day after Anselmo’s death, George decided to finally admit to his parents he was gay, and he did so in a long letter. His mother Lesley’s only reaction was devastation that she hadn’t been able to help her son through such a traumatic experience. But what of Jack,Continue Reading
Even those who remained married after their husbands returned from war found there were changes to absorb. Other families endured long-term consequences of the conflict. Of the men who came home, 15,000 returned with physical injuries. And there were also those less visibly damaged. In the 1940s the term usedContinue Reading
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/10/history-war-drugs-vikings-nazis-161005101505317.html More recently, Middle Eastern conflicts have seen an increase in the rise of Captagon, an amphetamine that is allegedly fuelling Syria’s civil war. Last November, 11 million pills were seized by Turkish officials at the Syrian-Turkish border, while this April 1.5 million were seized in Kuwait. In a BBCContinue Reading
The military takes sexual assault very seriously. The US Department of Veteran Affairs says that sexual assault is “more likely to cause PTSD than many other events”. Of course, within the military this is not just a women’s issue. In the US one in four women and one in 100Continue Reading
https://theoakwheel.wordpress.com/2013/12/23/the-evolution-of-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-american-cinema-and-culture/ Then, in 1982, with a new president in the Oval Office, a new wave of PTSD cinema emerged: the Rambo era. Along with the three Rambo installments that comprised this decade came the reimagining of history, or as famed film critics, Siskel and Ebert, referred to such movies as,Continue Reading
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2338950/lady-gaga-rape-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/ Re-experiencing: This is the most common symptom. It often takes the form of flashbacks, nightmares, repetitive and distressing images or sensations, sweating, pain, nausea and trembling. Avoidance: Avoiding certain people and places that remind the person of the experience. Many people avoid talking about the trauma – and mayContinue Reading
