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We know that many soldiers are returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder, but they're not the only ones disturbed by what they've seen in war zones. The concept is new, but military veterinarians say they're diagnosing service dogs with PTSD and even developing treatments, even though it's incredibly difficult when their patients can't tell them what they've witnessed. More »
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While it's gotten a reputation as a club drug, ecstasy could have unexpected benefits — as a treatment for PTSD. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5845522&view=rss&microfeed=true Journalist Mac McClelland witnessed a rape victim's trauma in Haiti, and was later diagnosed with PTSD. She writes, "under the circumstances, violent sex wasn't a matter of recreation for me. It was a way, one way, to help get better." Her description of the (consensual) encounter that helped her heal is raw and may be triggering for some, but it's moving to read how the experience helped her rediscover her own strength. More »
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A new study finds that in the year after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, male and female servicemembers had similar levels of combat-related stress. More »
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Women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan face a higher risk of mental illness during pregnancy. A study of 43,000 vets showed hormonal and physiological changes associated with pregnancy may bring out or worsen conditions like PTSD or depression. More »
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You guys, scientists are learning to erase our memories! Everybody panic! Or ... maybe not. More »
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Feeling stressed? Maybe it's because you put out raging fires for a living. Or maybe you're just a lady. More »
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All my life, I've suffered from nightmares. Dinosaurs, murderers, evil versions of my own family — all have stalked my sleep over the years. Now there may be a cure. More »
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• Just to reiterate what you probably already suspected: everything from sunscreen to mascara is chock full o' dangerous chemicals. Lead in lipstick, carcinogens in baby shampoo... the list goes on and on.

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In the past year, Elle's had a surprising number of pretty serious articles on mental health. This month, writer Louisa Kamps tackles a new therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, in which sufferers mentally relive traumatic events. More »
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...And with the publication of Helen Benedict's book and Courtney E. Martin's American Prospect article about female soldiers suffering from PTSD after sexual assault, the issue might actually get the attention it deserves. More »
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Where is the mental health outreach for our veterans? John Wylie Needham, an Iraq war veteran who described himself as "falling apart at the seams" upon returning from combat, has been arrested for beating his girlfriend to death in Orange County, California. • New reports about side effects and allergic reactions in young women who have received shots of Gardasil have experts wondering if these and other side effects have been researched thoroughly enough. • The MoMA has named longtime curator Ann Temkin as the chief curator for painting and sculpture, one of the biggest and most prestigious jobs in the museum and modern art world. • More »
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A new survey says that 9% of postpartum women suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. You know, the same disorder that Iraq vets and plane crash survivors get. Something does not compute here, especially when you read further into the Wall Street Journal piece about this increasingly common affliction. "Childbirth-related PTSD became more of a focus of study only after 1995, when the American Psychiatric Association broadened criteria for the disorder," the Journal notes. In addition, the treatment is the same for childbirth-related PTSD and regular postpartum depression: talk therapy and sometimes anti-depressants like Zoloft. At the bottom of the WSJ article, there is a list of symptoms of PTSD vs postpartum depression, and while the PTSD symptoms are more specific, they also fit the criterion for regular old postpartum blues. Of course, women should feel comfortable speaking up and getting help about whatever issues they have in those difficult post-birth months, but something still irks me about this classification of childbirth as "trauma." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5033243&view=rss&microfeed=true The clip above features a poor dog who doesn't realize there's no glass or screen on the door of her home. While some may make the case that Isabel, the dog, is dumb as a stump, one could surmise that she actually has some sort of post-traumatic stress disorder or Pavlovian avoidance issue: clearly there used to be a screen on that door, and no one has effing told Isabel that the screen is gone. Or maybe this dog is about as sharp as a marble. You decide. More »
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Walt Smith was a geeky Mormon kid who enlisted in the Army Reserves right before 9/11 and was working at Wal-Mart when he was called for duty in January 2002. After a few months fighting the Republican Guard on a tour that included an early engagement during which he was shot at relentlessly for several hours, Walt returned to America irrevocably fucked up. One day he had a sobbing fit on the Quantico shooting range; he was discharged. And two years later, during a post-coital bath, he pushed underwater and drowned the young mother of his infant twins. They had been newly reunited; after a brief courtship during which she lost her virginity to him and he wondered if the babies were his, he had checked up on her MySpace page and, struck by the babies' resemblance to himself, called her up and begun, after spending the past two years drunk and drifting, attempting to assume his fatherly responsibilities. Instead, he killed her. Seven months after the death had been ruled a suicide, he confessed. The charge was manslaughter. He'll serve somewhere between one and fifteen years. More »
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