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View Post: Spreading the word about PTSD « U.S. Military Veterans Center in ...
2 hours ago by ssgt langer  
That was one coping mechanism described Wednesday by Patcho Santiago, an assistant professor for the Uniformed Services University's department of psychiatry. Santiago addressed responses to disasters and post-traumatic stress disorder ...
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View Post: You Can Be Living Without Panic Now – It Has Been Done.
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View Post: Major impacts of climate change expected on mental health ...
4 hours ago by NLN  
Adverse psychiatric outcomes are well documented in the aftermaths of natural disasters and include post-traumatic stress disorder, major depression and somatoform disorders. The needs of people will chronic mental illness have ... In addition, maladaptive coping mechanisms and poor quality housing are likely to further increase vulnerability, and death by suicide may also increase above a certain temperature threshold. Adverse impacts such as psychological distress, ...
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View Post: Benefits of a Trauma Recovery Program
22 hours ago by Vera  
Trauma recovery programs are designed to help individuals suffering from trauma or abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and/or sexual addiction/compulsivity. Such individuals may also be chemically dependent, ... The stress accompanying traumatic events demands coping strategies of the individual that far exceed their capabilities. They develop protective psychological mechanisms to help them deal with the stress, but this comes with a severe penalty. ...
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View Post: Optical UV Dealing With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
6 hours ago
For those who experience it, post-traumatic stress disorder can be an incredibly debilitating disease that can prevent you from living a full life. ... In fact, it can be seen in people who were abused as children, rape victims, people who have to clean up after disaster, or anyone else who has undergone severe stress at any point in their lives. Unfortunately, the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder is still in its infancy. Psychologists, psychiatrists ...
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View Post: United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) - NEWS
25 Nov 2009
"Post-traumatic stress disorder after a disaster such as this can cause sleep and depression problems," said Dr. Miguel Coello, MEDEL liaison officer. "And the Ministry of Health saw this as a golden opportunity to treat people for PTSD and help them start coping early with what they experienced." The preventative medicine personnel providing initial screening tried very hard to stress the importance of talking about PTSD because if people can´t learn how to cope with ...
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View Post: Film Intuition: Review Database: DVD Review: Rethink Afghanistan ...
15 hours ago by Jen Johans  
And it's all the more arresting when you consider the troops who manage to make it home but have done so either disabled and/or suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, will obviously and deservedly incur more costs of both red and ... to reexamine our strategy and reach a better solution for a problem that has spiraled so far out of control that the red and the green have begun to mix together into an indiscernible disaster that eventually we may be unable to fix. ...
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View Post: In Bed with Billy: The Trauma and the Ecstasy
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21 hours ago by opinioneditor   ...
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View Post: FCS2280/FY1004: Trauma and Adolescents
22 Oct 2007
However, recent research suggests that this type of intervention may not only be ineffective, but can cause harm to certain individuals by disturbing the natural coping process (Roth & Fonagy, 2006). Therefore, it is suggested that this ... Gender disparities in posttraumatic stress disorder after mass trauma. Gender Medicine, 3(1), 54-67. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2007). Disaster relief and crisis counseling. Retrieved August 6, 2007, ...
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View Post: Taking A Liberating Jump, Hopefully - PTSD Forum
30 Nov 2009 by phoenix62  
There is no denying that I'm finding this step very difficult, as I have so far spent a lifetime coping alone, whether it was with my mother's sadistic and down putting ways, bullying through life, cruel lovers, a couple of rapes, 10 years of regular suicide attempts (between age 15 and ... I have become terrified of outside agressions and even of my own son, now 17, whose violent outbursts are themselves quite a demonstration of his own PTSD (we do pass on the crap too). ...
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