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Who Has PTSD?


  • About 5.- 8 million American adults have PTSD.
  • Military, including those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Recent reports from the Pentagon have estimated that nearly 10-20 percent of troops in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters have suffered at least a mild concussion, due mostly to IEDs

 

  • Victims of sexual abuse,rape and domestic violence,
  • head trauma
  • workplace and MVA injury.
Do You Experience PTSD?
Estimates for the number of persons with PTSD increase every year. Because the diagnosis is exacting, and the resources (of the VA) are limited, many with PTSD will not be diagnosed.
Dispute on Diagnosis
Have you experienced a tramatic event, which has adversely affected your life, but been told that you do not have PTSD?