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13 Things to Remember If You Love A Person With Anxiety

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Anxiety is tough, isn’t it? Not just for the people that have it, but for you – the people that stick with them – while they’re going through it. It’s emotionally taxing on both ends, it’s physically demanding at times, and of course mentally ... | Read More

You Are What You Eat: The Mind/Body Connection

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In 2012, I was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Major Depressive Disorder, as well as having horrific bouts of anxiety and panic attacks. I have been under the care of a Psychiatrist and a therapist since that time. During ... | Read More

How People Who Have PTSD Think Differently

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Having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder changes a person, not only the way they think, but also the way they act and how they love. It can be challenging, most of the time with PTSD a few other things come along such as anxiety, depression and panic ... | Read More

Sean Gobin named a CNN Hero

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Not only one of CNN's Top 10 Heroes, Sean Gobin is nominated for CNN's 2015 Hero of the Year. Watch the Video and #VoteSeanGobin Sean Gobin was ready for the next phase of his life and was in a hurry to get there. He and a buddy, Mark Silvers, ... | Read More

A Summer Cold

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After surviving the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Phil Boffa’s life centers around his family now. He wishes he could say the same for his coworkers that didn’t survive. By PTSDJournal Staff - Every September 11 Phil Boffa ... | Read More

Hurricane Katrina 10th Anniversary

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More than 450,000 people called New Orleans home before Hurricane Katrina hit August 29, 2005. Less than 200,000 remain today. Photographers Norman DeShong and Douglas Adams Jr., have traveled to New Orleans every year since 2006, amassing over 300 ... | Read More

VA Holds Summit on Brain Trauma

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By PTSDJournal Staff — Robert McDonald faced significant challenges when he took over the Veterans Administration in June 2014. Following a scandal that forced the agency to admit to widespread corruption and misconduct in its administration, ... | Read More

The Facade of a Condition

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By David Cummings — The assassination of John F. Kennedy is a dark day in American history. Television made it the first assassination witnessed live. Admirers in Dallas that day at the Grassy Knoll watching the Presidential motorcade saw ... | Read More

Finding a Way for Billy & Ashley

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By Courtenay Higgins — It was unusually cold and rainy on April 5, 2003, when 20-year-old Ashley Streiter, back from Kutztown University for the weekend, left her Florham Park, New Jersey, home in the early morning hours to pick up her older ... | Read More

Beating the Odds

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By Andre Carter — “I CAN DO THIS.” Arthur Boorman wrote those four simple words in a 2007 email to DDP Yoga founder Diamond Dallas Page. The retired Army Airborne staff sergeant was in desperate need of pain relief for his failing body, and he had ... | Read More

Recovery Ranch

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By Tim Smith — There are no big city distractions at this quiet setting where a low number of patients allow therapists to provide individual attention to each client. “It’s in the middle of the country. I have clients who come in the first day ... | Read More

Troops to Teachers

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By Evan Bleier — Baghdad, Chicago, Kabul, Baltimore, Fallujah, Detroit, and New Orleans: The terrain may be different, but these cities are all battlegrounds of sorts. Thanks to an initiative launched by Teach For America, members of the United ... | Read More

Project: Harmony

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By Andre Carter — After Los Angeles gang members became riveted while watching her five-year old son playing Brahms on a violin, Dr. Margaret Martin was inspired to use music to transform the lives of Los Angeles’s neediest students. In 2001 she ... | Read More

Kaiser’s Study Results in an Ace

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By Glen Waggoner — Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a punishing psychological condition that is most frequently diagnosed in combat military personnel and adult victims of criminal attack and automobile accidents. Recently researchers have ... | Read More

A Safe Home Base

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By Evan Bleier — In 2012, a beacon of light for veterans who are battling the black hole of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) began shining in Texas. Located in Houston, Camp Hope caters exclusively to U.S. combat veterans. Its goal is to ... | Read More