Trauma can also greatly affect our mental health and lead to diagnoses such as social anxiety, depression, acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Here's what PTSD is ...

Therapy and crisis support are essential, but fewer firefighters would need them if more effort was put into building ...

A new bill would mandate paid leave for NY State Troopers involved in critical incidents to address PTSD and improve officer ...

PTSD is usually treated with therapy ... When this happens, your body releases hormones like adrenaline that spike your heart rate, quicken your breath, and make you hyper-aware of your surroundings.

A high volume of military personnel serving in Iraq are expected to seek treatment of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is because the rate among armed forces may be as high as 35 per cent ...

Police officers with multiple head injuries are more than twice as likely to develop complex post-traumatic stress disorder.

This study appears to have been the first to assess the long-term effects of hypnosedative use among Vietnam War veterans with PTSD. Although it is clear that there is a high prevalence of ...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder diagnosis rates in the UK military have increased ... face an increased risk of developing secondary PTSD themselves. Over the past two years, veterans charity ...

He describes the often profound impact PTSD can have on the quality of sleep for the veterans he counsels. "Hyper-arousal, which is anxiety-like symptoms, fight or flight, increased heart rate ...