PTSD Articles

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• Before The World Intruded: Conquering The Past And Creating The Future
  Michele Rosenthal’s memoir, Before The World Intruded, is the story of her struggle with a life-threatening illness and the trauma it created. Rosenthal shares her battle with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), leading us from her diagnosis ...
• War and Finding Peace
  First responders and veterans are similar in being willing to face danger in order to protect and save others. While they give their all, ...
• Can You Benefit from EMDR Therapy?
  EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy has been declared an effective form of trauma treatment ...
• Using EMDR Therapy to Heal Your Past: Interview with Creator Francine Shapiro
  Francine Shapiro, Ph.D, first discovered and developed EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) in ...
• Trauma-Informed Practices with Children and Adolescents
  Trauma-Informed Practices with Children and Adolescents by William Steel and Cathy A. Malchiodi is a powerful and user-friendly book aimed at educating clinicians in their work with child and adolescent trauma survivors. This comprehensive book ...
• Parenting after Traumatic Events: Ways to Support Children
  One of the most important messages for parents about traumatic experiences—such as car accidents, medical trauma, exposure to violence, ...
• Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity
  Dr. K. Elan Jung’s Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity is a strong reference, written for a wide audience including physicians, therapists, victims and the general layperson.  Dr. Jung is a practicing psychiatrist who has ...
• Dispelling Myths about Dissociative Identity Disorder
  Dissociative identity disorder (DID), known previously as multiple personality disorder, is not a real disorder. At least, that’s what you ...
• October is Domestic Violence Month
  Domestic violence remains a huge and largely hidden problem. The purple ribbons you may have seen recently on car bumpers and people’s ...
• The Boy from Bothell: Bipolar Vietnam Veteran
  Gene Olson’s The Boy from Bothell: Bipolar Vietnam Veteran gives a memoir of his life, his difficulties with bipolar disorder and his fight for sanity.  As Olson notes, bipolar disorder was first described at the ...
• Treating PTSD with Surf Therapy
  For the last handful of years, Britain and the United States have done quiet experiments with a new form of therapy for veterans ...
• The Long Half-Life of Trauma
  Here's a question: How many times in the last week have you thought about the disaster in Japan? What about the ...
• Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Conversation with Dr. Frank Ochberg
  Thanks to generous gifts from a new donor, Gift From Within and the Dart Society are collaborating to better serve the needs of veterans, members of the Armed Forces, and military families who carry the ...
• Suicide and the Military
  When someone commits suicide, it’s a tragedy. When we are losing more soldiers to suicide than to ...
• The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Relationship
  The RAND Corporation estimated that, as of October 2007, 300,000 service members returning from foreign battlefields were suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.  Current estimates indicate that somewhere around one in five combat ...
• My Trip to the ER: Attention Must Be Paid
  I'm a psych patient. My primary diagnosis is bipolar II, but there’s a little anxiety, PTSD and other stuff ...
• Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing
  The second edition of Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing adopts a different perspective than most self-help books currently in circulation. The book's fundamental points are those of basic human nature ...
• Gentling: A Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children
  William E. Krill, Jr.’s book Gentling: a Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children is a must-read for anyone who works with children.  To say that it is a good idea to ...
• Understanding the Effects of Trauma: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  The essential psychological effect of trauma is a shattering of innocence. Trauma creates a loss of faith that there is any safety, predictability, or ...
• How Family and Close Friends Can Help Trauma Survivors
  How do you express your support to someone who is reeling from a traumatic experience? There are things you can do for the other person as well as for yourself. 1. If your ...
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Linked to Earlier Poor Health
  Rates of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are higher among military personnel who had mental or physical health problems before combat, a recent study has found. Cynthia LeardMann and colleagues at the Naval Health Research Center in ...
• Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most difficult conditions for anyone to bear. Many who encounter life-threatening events or situations that threaten physical or emotional safety become burdened by a variety of intense ...
• Ricochet: The Truth About PTSD
  Some of you may have read the article "Ricochet: My shot made Joseph Dwyer famous. Did it also help lead to his death?" If you haven't, you might want to. It's about this young ...
• We Shouldn’t Need a Day of Our Own
  Everybody in the United States is terribly aware the second Sunday in May is Mother's Day -- the floral and greeting card industries won’t let you forget it. Mother's Day is big business. (Whether people ...
• Yoga for Treatment of Anxiety and Depression
  Can yoga help in the treatment of anxiety and depression? Since the 1970s, meditation and other stress-reduction techniques have been studied as possible treatments for depression and anxiety. One such practice, yoga, has received less attention ...