PTSD

How To Use PTSD In A Sentence

• DR STEVE HAGEMOSER, TREATS PTSD VICTIMS IN IOWA: We don't use the word cheerer (ph) with our veterans, but we do like to let them know the truth that there is life after PTSD. CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2005
• Scheeringa is particularly concerned about the in-betweeners in the 7-to 11-year-old age group, whose ability to convey PTSD symptoms may not be much more developed than the youngest children.
• Mr. Davies has also suffered from marked alcohol dependency and a major depressive disorder which are common concomitants of PTSD.
• PTSD is easily medically diagnosed but not at all medically respected, despite its disabling effects. The Sun
• Given that PTSD sometimes takes years to surface in a veteran, these numbers are almost assuredly going to grow. Times, Sunday Times
• If you have PTSD, you may have vivid nightmares, flashbacks, and bad memories.
• Unfortunately, the symptoms of TBI are nearly indistinguishable from symptoms of other conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, both of which also often co-occur with TBI among veterans. Ruth Bettelheim, Ph.D.: No Victory for Surge of Brain Injured Veterans
• Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can cause "flashbacks" which revive terrifying memories, recurring nightmares, "hypervigilance" -- jumpiness and irritability, feelings of panic and fear, social isolation and depression. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
• But those who rated highest on personality traits such as negativism and paranoia before deployment also tended to show more signs of PTSD later.
• The likelihood of suffering from PTSD is cumulative, meaning that if PTSD could be measured so effectively, and thus forfended a soldier who spends a year and a half in Iraq but comes within a tenth of getting full-blown PTSD will still be 90% of the way to PTSD when they return a year later. On the Scene at the Iraq Hearings - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com