Julian McBride

Forensic Anthropologist, Director of the ROW Initiative, Co-Founder of Neo Antiquity, USA

Publications
  • Editorial   
    Remedies of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
    Author(s): Julian McBride*

    Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is defined as a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event that has been experienced or witnessed. Symptoms of PTSD may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event. Reliving traumatic experiences uncontrollably is one of the leading cause of suicide. One study examined all suicide deaths from 1994–2006 using the Danish national healthcare and social registries, and found that persons with PTSD had 5.3 times the rate of death from suicide than persons without PTSD, after adjustment for gender, age, marital status, income, and pre-existing depression diagnoses (PTSD Research Quarter. There are currently about 8 million people in the United States living with PTSD (ADAA). This statistic increases ever more with service-members in the Armed Forces, as military pers.. View more»

    DOI: 10.35248/2475-319X.19.5.153

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