Dropping the Disorder from PTSD

I know I focus a lot on Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome from troops returning from Afghanistan, but there are a growing number of cases being diagnosed from people who are not even related in any way to military service. Trauma that can bring about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can range from anything like losing a child in a car accident to surviving a kidnapping that you feel you should not have. The disorder is brought on by the feeling that you are the one that should not have made it, or that you were affected by it in any number of ways. Maybe you feel as though you were trapped for any number of times and now you cannot stand tight spaces. Maybe you cannot handle flying after a rocky ride gave you nightmares for years after. Although being in a combat situation is the most likely way you will receive Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is not the only way. Studies show that there are over eleven million Americans living with some form of P.T.S.D. today, and that there are more than likely many more than that. With that being said there should probably be more comprehensible ways of treating and diagnosing P.T.S.D. right? Well the answer is that only in recent years have there been enough consensuses amongst the scientific community to actually look heavily into the problem. In my own opinion there should have been a lot more going into it, especially if there are more then eleven million suffering from it.

Dropping the Disorder from PTSD, Maia Szalavitz, Time Magazine, (97) 103