What is Ptsd? A Basic Definition

PTSD
     n : an anxiety disorder associated with serious
         traumatic events
         and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt,
         reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of
         involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and
         images [syn: posttraumatic stress disorder]

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Off-site Ptsd Links, User Submitted

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Fri Sep 5

• Creeping Managerialism versus Cohesive Social Life
• A Death in the College
• Long-Term Mortality Risks in Veterans with PTSD

Thu Sep 4

• "Soldiers' Suicide Rate On Pace to Set Record" By Ann Scott Tyson: Suicides among active-duty soldiers this year are on pace to exceed both last year's all-time record and, for the first time since the Vietnam War, the rate among the general U.S. population, Army officials said yesterday.
• Palantir Technologies : The future of analysis
• Soldier suicide rate may set record again - Mental health- msnbc.com

Wed Sep 3

• ...Daydream Believer... - SPN Fic: Dangling On A String: It's been two years since Dean and Sam disappeared. When Ellen, Jo and Bobby find the brothers they're beaten, broken and perhaps, beyond hope.
• PSY110: PILOTS Database: Citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. Includes links to full-text in other sources.
• chandri - Catalysis: After Rodney is taken hostage on a trading mission, he starts to fall apart. Will he be able to pull himself together before he's sent back to Earth permanently, or will John have to force him to deal with it? A John and Rodney Visit the Millers story.
• John McCain's suicide attempt and resulting PTSD

Tue Sep 2

• Technipoems - Lulu.com: Wicked poetry and pictures related to war and chaos. See inside the mind of a combat Marine in a state of PTSD insanity.
• Iraq Fallout Comes to San Clemente - Navel Gazing - OC Weekly: evidence ptsd, military release post duty negative effects on society & economy
• Treating Iraqi Children For PTSD : NPR
• Purna - SGA: Converging, slash fiction: ~27,000 words | John saves a man from drowning and takes the long way home.
• Thousands of war veterans locked in British prisons - Telegraph

Off-site Ptsd Research Links

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