Whereas someone may develop PTSD after a single traumatic event, like an assault, CPTSD can occur with repeated trauma, such as child abuse.

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can happen after a person experiences a traumatic event, causing them to feel fearful, shocked, or helpless. It can have ...

When combined with PTSD and mild TBI, low-level blast exposure is associated with cognitive outcomes in military personnel.

A meta-analysis finds that trauma-based psychological treatments are more effective than usual care in reducing depressive ...

A comparatively quick treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, in which a patient writes about traumatic experiences in five supervised 30-minute sessions, is as effective as the therapies most ...

With the rate of trauma-related anxiety disorders in college students more than doubling recently, colleges are ramping up an array of mental health services. Diagnoses of post-traumatic stress ...

Training a service dog doesn’t just change the life of another veteran; it may help heal the trainer, too. A new study finds ...

The use of PTSD as a foundation for the insanity defense is rare. Yet, there is a high prevalence of debilitating trauma and posttraumatic stress symptoms among criminal offenders, both men and women.

If you have experienced a traumatic event and continue to have distressing flashbacks of the event, you may have PTSD.

This post is in response to C-PTSD: What Is Complex PTSD? By Shauna H Springer Ph.D. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) is often characterized by a pervasive and frequently debilitating ...