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Some Brain Injuries Reduce Likelihood Of Post-Traumatic Stress
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
Dr. Grafman says similar results probably will be found in those other populations, given that previous studies had connected Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Depression hits home for veterans
Journal Times - Racine,WI,USA
Coupled with reintegration programming that involves counselors and screening for post-traumatic stress disorder, the survey is a key factor in determining
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Season of Sharing: Once homeless, veteran’s family moves upscale
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
For Selassie, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from working on ships during the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the conflict in Somalia,
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Did This Tiger Hold a Grudge?
TIME - USA
They were, the scientists suggested, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder — terminology usually reserved for humans — responding to years of
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New date for death row Scot’s release hearing
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Post- traumatic stress is rampant with them. They’ll always feel angry, but there are ways to cope with the outside world.”
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‘Sometimes the world comes to you’
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA
A neurologist explained post traumatic stress disorder in scientific terms, describing the brain’s reaction to stress and trauma. “The stress response is
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‘US combat troops suffer trauma’
Times of India - India
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the term for a range of symptoms that include nightmares, memory flashbacks and chronic anxiety,
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Why Stress is Deadly
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
Besides heart disease, posttraumatic stress disorder and depression, chronic stress has been linked to ailments as diverse as intestinal problems,
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Most Psychiatric Patients Have More Than One Diagnosis
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Patients with principal diagnoses of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and bipolar disorder had the highest number

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Suicide & The Lessons of War
Pacifica Radio - USA
In her book, “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War,” she says that official versions of military history downplay and distort
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Speaker to talk to parents about children and anxiety
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
A: There’s generalized anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder. I’ll be talking a little bit about medications for those disorders

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Heart ailments linked to terror worries
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
“Now you don’t have to wait months to find out if a person has post-traumatic stress disorder to find out if they’re vulnerable to later heart conditions,”
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Britney Spears ‘Doesn’t Know How To Deal,’ Mental-Health Experts Say
MTV.com - USA
You end up with a woman who has no identity, and that’s traumatic.” So traumatic that she’s suffering from a form of post-traumatic stress disorder?
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Phoebe to get funds for PTSD
Albany Herald On-line - Albany,GA,USA
About 200 of the 4700 veterans enrolled at an Albany clinic have been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, a hospital official says.
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Moving exhibit by Ashe native recalls Viet Nam
Jefferson Post - West Jefferson,NC,USA
Shoemaker said he suffers from Bi-Polar and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and needs medication and counseling to survive. “At times it has been almost
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Diplomats Give Rice Low Marks
Washington Post - United States
Results of the survey will appear in this month’s Foreign Service Journal, which focuses on post-traumatic stress disorder among diplomats after service in

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Nancy Hengeveld: We need better access to mental health care
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
One young soldier from Wisconsin called in to say he recognized his symptoms as post-traumatic stress disorder and was put in front of a computer to take a
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Therapy for stress of offshore oil work
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The move is a result of an increase in demand for help for conditions like post traumatic stress disorder and SAD (seasonal affected disorder).
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4th Brigade re-enlistment rate leads Army
Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - Anchorage,AK,USA
post-traumatic stress disorder. “We won’t know until March or April the real impact of post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries,” he said.

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Verdict just: drunk driving victim
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
continues to receive both physiotherapy for his injuries and psychological therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Some good, some bad
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
Susan Davis, D-San Diego, learned in her post on the House Committee on Education and Labor that service members with post-traumatic stress disorder find it
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255 survivors of July 7 attacks treated for stress
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The majority - 71% - were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, with other problems including travel phobia, anxiety disorder and major depression.

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Warrior on Drugs: War without Tears
Pacific Free Press - Victoria,BC,Canada
Coleman takes specific aim at the “Psychological Kevlar Act,” aimed at reducing the alarming spread of soldier suicides and post-traumatic stress disorder
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A FORMER soldier who stabbed a friend twice with a kitchen knife
News & Star - Carlisle,England,UK
Defence barrister Brendan Burke, mitigating, said Tongue was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by what he had seen while serving in the
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The Military Family Network
eMilitary.org - USA
Relying on her experience helping her Iraq-veteran son deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, an Oklahoma woman has created a foundation to help a wider

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Berkeley man receives 56 years to life in prison Man gets 56 to
Oakland Tribune - Oakland,CA,USA
Street’s attorney, Drew Steckler, argued that Street’s post-traumatic stress disorder, caused by his involvement in several shootings, including being shot
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Recovering from PTSD5
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) - Tuscaloosa,AL,USA
I didn’t know I was suffering from a mental illness called post-traumatic stress disorder. I didn’t know why I had problems working for others.
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Stress sufferers take terrorism risk to heart
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
challenge previous assumptions that people had to have had direct exposure to terrorist attacks, and the development of post-traumatic stress disorder,
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