Partners of Veterans with PTSD: Caregiver Burden and Related Problems

A number of studies have found that veterans' PTSD symptoms can negatively impact family relationships and that family relationships may exacerbate or ameliorate a veteran's PTSD and comorbid conditions.
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Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Survivors May Suffer Symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress

Patients who have been diagnosed and treated for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma may have symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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A personal land mine

She didn't dream her son would become a victim of the war the way he did -- not on a faraway battlefield like she feared, but like a growing number of veterans -- by his own hand once he made it home.
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A proud solider whose division captured Saddam Hussein, Michael Sherriff went into a tragic downward spiral after he returned home from Iraq four years ago.

It ended with his suicide Feb. 1 in Redding, where he had spent many of his younger years.

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A Helping Hand for Vets

Imagine you are a young soldier wounded in Iraq. Your physical injuries heal, but your mind remains tormented. You are flooded with memories of the bloody firefight you survived, you can't concentrate, and sudden noise makes you jump out of your skin.
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Shellshock and Redemption

Michele Barrett’s new work from Verso titled Casualty Figures takes a look at the lives of five men who fought for the British military in the First World War and suffered some form of shell shock.
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Researchers: Suicide seems linked to PTSD

As more veterans return home from the war, researchers are looking at the connection between PTSD and suicide.
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Here’s how to deal with the feeling of trauma after post-poll vio

What has not received as much media attention, however, is the emotional cost in terms of trauma and the likely consequences of the people’s experiences.
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Combat stress: A ticking time bomb

Around the world soldiers who fought and bled for their countries are returning home so traumatized by their experiences that they are unable to function as normal citizens. They suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.
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Healing the psychological wounds of war

There is moaning, dying, screaming, moments out of hell. Mercifully, it ends. You get back in your car and drive home as though nothing unusual occurred. You do not talk about what happened because everyone wants to forget that it occurred. That is analogous to the experience of many Iraq combat veterans who are returning home.
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Art Therapy Shows Promise in Treatment of PTSD

Recent research involving children and adolescents with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) indicates that art therapy may be a promising treatment.
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Managing Your Distress in the Aftermath of Shooting

You may be struggling to understand how a shooting rampage could take place at a college campus and why such a terrible thing would happen.
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Virtual Reality Used to Treat Traumatized Vets

Academic researchers and military docs are developing virtual reality simulators with the hope of treating PTSD by exposing veterans to video game-like recreations of the kind of horrors they experienced in the war.
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Home from war, but no peace

Almost three years after an explosion ripped apart his leg and killed his best friend in Fallujah, Iraq, war still stirred
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Victims' families 'are neglected'

The families of murder victims are neglected and get a "woeful lack of care", according to new research.
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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Is A Medical Warning Sign For Long-term Health Problems, Study Suggests

ScienceDaily (Feb. 15, 2008) — Geisinger research finds that veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are as likely to have long-term health problems as people with chronic disease risk factors such as an elevated white blood cell counts and biological signs and symptoms. However, few healthcare providers screen for PTSD in the same way as they screen for other chronic disease risk factors.
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Researchers say 2006 war left many children in targeted areas with emotional scars

BEIRUT: A new study issued on Wednesday showed that 14.4 percent of children and teenagers in South Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs suffered from war-related psychological symptoms after the summer 2006 war with Israel ended, adding that 15.4 percent of teenagers might suffer from post-traumatic stress disorders.
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Post Traumatic Stress Is a Risk Factor for Chronic Disease

Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are just as likely to have long term health problems as people with chronic disease risk factors like high white blood cell counts. However, very few healthcare providers screen PTSD patients for these biological markers.
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1983 Bushfire trauma lasting in children

"Out of about 600 that we managed to follow up, there were about 30 of them that were still having very high levels of distress
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A Brief History of PTSD

A Brief History of PTSD

A brief history of stress

There is now evidence that points to abnormal stress responses as being involved in causing various diseases or conditions.
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History of Combat Trauma Bibliography

Posted by Robert Bateman on February 3, 2008 11:28 AM
The history of combat trauma is one which draws fire every time. It is a topic wrapped in politics, both conventional and those internal to both the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and history. I hope this brief annotated bibliography will help some come to understand the foundations, the arguments, and the various issues in play on this topic. This list is rank-ordered in what I believe is their utility to those interested in the study of war, particularly my fellow historians and journalists, but also my peers in the military.
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Bringing the war home

Eugene Cherry returned from Iraq with gruesome nightmares, thoughts of suicide and an explosive anger. Then his real trouble started.
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Private Battle

"You're scared all of the time,"
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"Once it took effect on me, everything snowballed downhill."
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"As it goes on, you hide and it gets worse,"
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Seeking out Social Support

There are several important pieces to a supportive relationship...
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US soldier suicides reach record number

The suicide rate among US soldiers has reached its highest level since records began almost 30 years ago, officials said.

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The Effects Of War

Almost half of the West Virginia soldiers returning from Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Bosnia have some form of behavioral or mental health issues.

That's the finding of a survey of a group of veterans detailed for state lawmakers at the State Capitol on Friday.

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Dogs chase nightmares of war away

Schaffer is one of a growing number of veterans with PTSD who are turning to an alternative therapy: psychiatric service dogs.

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War Concussions Linked to Stress

About one in six combat troops returning from Iraq have suffered at least one concussion in the war, injuries that, while fleeting, could heighten their risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers are reporting.

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Wounds of the mind and heart: Rescuing the child soldier

Wounds of the mind and heart can be as life threatening as a blow to the head or a stab wound but often go unseen or misdiagnosed.

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Soldiers Suffering from War: PTSD or Brain Injury?

An extensive study by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research concludes that PTSD and depression play a larger role than previously acknowledged in symptoms suffered by soldiers returning from war.

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More Veterans Returning Home With PTSD

One in six veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from the disorder and one in three show symptoms of the disorder, also known as PTSD, according to Murphy, an Iraq war veteran.

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In the New England Journal of Medicine Army doctors are reporting that concussions - from roadside bombs in many cases - increase chances that a vet will suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. At the same time, they write, psychological stress remains the primary reason for the disorder. The article’s primary point appears to be that PTSD treatment may suffice and be more effective for most vets than to try to zero in specifically on, and isolate, post-concussion effects.

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Brain Injury Linked To Traumatic Stress

(AP) Traumatic brain injury, described as the signature wound of the Iraq war, may be less to blame for soldiers' symptoms than doctors once thought, contends a provocative military study that suggests post-traumatic stress and depression often play a role.

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War Head Injuries: Long-Term Effects

they found that a remarkable one-sixth had suffered at least one concussion during their yearlong deployment — typically during combat or from a blast. These same soldiers turned out to be at higher risk for PTSD than those who hadn't had a concussion

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