Service dogs helped ease PTSD symptoms in US military veterans, researchers say
A small study has found that specially trained service dogs helped ease PTSD symptoms in US military veterans, and researchers hope the study will help expand options for service members. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides talk therapy and medication to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and is running a pilot program for service […]
FDA panel rejects MDMA-based treatment for PTSD
A potential treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder using the hallucinogen MDMA was overwhelmingly rejected by a federal regulatory panel on Tuesday, in what could be a major setback for the use of psychedelics in treating mental illness. A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee voted 10 against approving MDMA as safe for treating PTSD […]
Woke Defense Department Mistakenly Posts LGBT Pride Graphic for PTSD Awareness Month
The Department of Defense (DOD) is coming under fire online for an embarrassing social media blunder when it accidentally posted a rainbow LGBTQ pride graphic in honor of PTSD Awareness Month. June has been designated as PTSD Awareness Month by the federal government since 2014, and was also recognized as Pride Month a year prior, […]
Pentagon mistakenly touts Pride Month in PTSD awareness post
The Department of Defense (DoD) made an embarrassing social media error on Saturday when it appeared to confuse Pride Month with PTSD Awareness Month. In a post published Saturday afternoon, the Department of Defense explained that June is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month, a commemorative month first recognized by the U.S. government in June 2014, […]
Chicago nurse free of COVID-19-related PTSD, depression after electrical brain tapping therapy
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Survivor of Mao’s political purge getting ‘PTSD’ watching history repeat on college campuses
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Is this actually PTSD? Clinicians divided over redefining borderline personality disorder | Mental health
When Professor Andrew Channen was a trainee psychiatrist in 1983, people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) who self-harmed were “vilified” and treated “horribly”. “There was a myth that somehow they were indestructible,” he says. Despite the teacher’s words, “most of them died before the training was over.” More than 40 years later, Chanen is director […]
VR headsets in PTSD treatment
hill blood dress We spoke with veterans who are benefiting from new technology in their recovery from PTSD. Maj. Tonya Oxendine, a retired sergeant who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the thousands of veterans already using VR to treat PTSD, as VR technology gains traction across the country. The 58-year-old credits VR […]
Brute who shoved ex onto NYC subway tracks should have been in jail for 2017 stabbing of mom, daughter, says victim: ‘I still have PTSD’
The creepy man accused of pushing his ex-girlfriend onto Manhattan subway tracks last weekend should never have been released, a former victim blasted in The Post on Monday. Jenny Aquino said she still can’t forget the day in 2017 when Christian Valdez “devilishly” barged into her apartment and brutally stabbed her and her 4-year-old daughter. […]
How a new, promising treatment may help veterans with PTSD
Combining virtual reality exposure with low-level electrical brain stimulation has promising results for people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, a study has found. Published in JAMA Psychiatry on Wednesday found. Although not systematically tracked, approximately 6% of Americans and an even larger percentage of veterans will suffer from PTSD at some point in their lives. […]