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“PTSD can break an individual” – But I Know You Can Defeat PTSD

A recent NBC news story talks about how a PTSD diagnosis can break an individual. Yes it can, but I believe what is broken can be healed. We can defeat PTSD. A life destroyed, can be a life reborn. From the NBC news article: PTSD can really ruin peoples’ lives,…

We all get broken – the truth of PTSD

We all get broken – the truth of PTSD

Posttraumatic stress disorder or PTSD is the “…development of characteristic symptoms….”. The key word there from the DSM-V is development. PTSD develops. I like to think of it as being broken. Life can break us in a million different ways and when that brokenness happens to meet the criteria in…