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From Symptoms to Treatment, New Survey Reveals Americans' Strong Misconceptions About PTSD Two-Thirds (67%) of Americans believe the Majority of Veterans Experience PTSD One in Four (26%) Americans believe the Majority of People with PTSD are Violent/Dangerous Nearly One in Four (23%) Americans believe PTSD is Not Treatable Additionally, two-thirds (65%) of Americans who have been diagnosed with PTSD say that civil unrest, political polarization, & isolation created by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year has negatively impacted their recovery News provided by Share this article Share thi...

Tomorrow is the fifty-first anniversary of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State. Each spring I'm reminded of this sad event and the heartache it caused so many. It is a central topic in my book, Surviving: A Kent State Memoir. But many events like this haunt those who witnessed them—the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the many wars the U.S. has fought, 9/11. There are also individual traumas that many of us have endured. Most writers probably have some kind of trauma in their past. Most use it as a well from which to draw emotion. Back in 1970 when I stood thirty yards in fron...

March 15, 2021 Steven Kelly Talks About Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Military Veterans And How To Cope-Up With It? Serving in the Army is one of the most unique experiences for every soldier. This job cannot be compared to any other job in the world and defies every concept of a job. The amount of satisfaction you get from serving your country cannot be compared with anything else. But like every other thing in […] The Thrive Global Community welcomes voices from many spheres on our open platform. We publish pieces as written by outside contributors with a wide range of opinions, which...

email article In a single-center Italian study, about 30% of patients who recovered from COVID-19 developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), researchers found. Among the 381 patients who were followed, those who developed PTSD were more likely to be women (55.7%), had higher rates of history of psychiatric disorder (34.8%), and were more likely to have had delirium or agitation during their acute illness (16.5%), Delfina Janiri, MD, of Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, and colleagues reported in a They also had more persistent medical symptoms after their initial illness (62.6%...

Sequential approach to treating comorbid PTSD and depression This study is the first randomized control trial to rigorously test a sequential approach to treating comorbid PTSD and major depressive disorder. Findings from a trial of 52 patients undergoing three types of treatment regime - using only Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), using Behavioural Activation Therapy (BA) with some CPT, or CPT with some BA - found that a combined treatment protocol resulted in meaningful reductions in PTSD and depression severity, with improvements maintained at six-month follow-up investigations. "We sou...