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RCMP being asked to help officers with PTSD
Toronto :: Canada | 3 days ago
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Krista Bouchard was married to a Mountie for 13 years a quirky, funny, chatty guy she met on a blind date...But three years into the marriage, Krista Bouchard started noticing symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder apparently related to her
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Can Pot Help Cure PTSD?
West Haven :: CT :: USA | 3 days ago
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Yet current treatments for the sometimes devastating anxiety disorder have limited efficacy...Symptoms include extended periods of flashbacks, agitation, and anxiety, which can be triggered by a thought, word, or object. It can lead to depression,
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Author Interview – Brian Heffron
Book Club Reading ListRead the Book? Now, Book the Author for Your Next Book Club Meeting!What inspired you to write this book? A desire to seek closure for all
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Colorado Mandala
Book Club Reading ListRead the Book? Now, Book the Author for Your Next Book Club Meeting!Colorado Mandala comes from poet Brian Heffron, who departs from his established genre with a novel of the
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Military suicides, sexual assaults and misconduct discharges (Opinion)
The all-volunteer military has been hit by a growing wave of sexual assaults, suicides and misconduct discharges. As usual in the US, most attention has focused on how to control the problems, rather than why they are occurring.
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For Combat Veterans Suffering From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, "Fear Circuitry" in the Brain Never Rests
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 7 days ago
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Chronic trauma can inflict lasting damage to brain regions associated with fear and anxiety...Their results, published in Neuroscience Letters , and presented today at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatry Association in San Francisco, show
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Police trained on vets under stress
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 9 days ago
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MailTribune.com Mail Tribune As a combat veteran of Iraq, Jackson County sheriff's Deputy David Duke knows about the stresses of war. But the veteran police officer didn't have specific training to deal with a veteran's post traumatic stress disorder
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Marijuana-like compound may lead to PTSD medication
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 11 days ago
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Cannabinoid receptors, known as CB1 receptors, are activated in the brain when a person uses cannabis, which can lead to impaired memory and reduced anxiety. The researchers' findings pave the way for the development of the first every medication
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Is demolishing a school the answer in the emotional aftermath of terrorism?
Terrorism, whether domestic or foreign, has immediate and long-lasting psychological effects for those present at the event as well as those who learn of the event through media accounts. Officials in Newtown, Conn., announced they
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Women Veterans, PTSD and Invisible Scars: Brutish Betrayal Again
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 12 days ago
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I have a dim view of their purported excellence of treatment...I was a patient in a VA hospital for about six months with a broken neck. I think this must have been a bad one, because they told my mother three times, "We don't think your son will
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