Media-Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Veterans of the Vietnam War have sadly raised our awareness of the existence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a chronic, sometimes lifelone condition resulting in pathological changes in mood, thinking and behavior It can be incapacitating and lead to job loss, family turmoil and dissolution, poor quality of life and often suicide. We now understand that the development of PTSD has its basis in enduring alterations of brain function that helps to explain the chronic and…