What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? Evidence from new study

Re:What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? Evidenc... by heisenbit on Sunday June 12, 2016 @03:21AM (#11887072)

A more accurate title for the NYT would have been

What if SOME PTSD is more physical than psychological.

The are a number of mental conditions that have more than one cause. Brain is a complex system and one disturbs it in one place or another and at the surface it all looks the same. Computers are similar - one place it goes wrong and the screen it looks like BSOD.

There is a real value of finding one clear physical cause->effect opening targeted opportunities for treatment and prevention.

But then there are plenty of people with PTSD that have not been anywhere near a blast. It may be one piece of a huge puzzle.

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Re:What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological? Evidenc... by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday June 12, 2016 @07:49AM (#11887675)

Yes, this article seems to reinforce the notion that PTSD is the exclusive domain of combat veterans, which is very far from reality.

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