It does not mean they will not have difficulty, it does not mean they will not need help, but the good news is that most children are not likely to develop PTSD.
Quotes about ptsd (10 Quotes)
With the Khmer Rouge tribunal, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD is an important issue to be addressed, and TPO is one of the few NGO's that can take care of this,
People with PTSD tell me their life is so miserable, they're willing to try anything to feel better. I'm amazed that what seemed to be science fiction just a few years ago is being tested. So this is a really big move forward.
What they are trying to do is figure out a way not to diagnose vets with PTSD. It's like telling a patient with cancer, 'if we tell you, you don't have cancer, then you won't suffer from cancer.
But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, ... Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.
CSD's first made headlines early in 2003 when the Pentagon announced they were developing drugs to help soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD). Feelings of guilt and regret travel neural pathways in a manner that mimics the tracings of ingrained fear, so a prophylactic against one could guard against the other, ... show strong promise for this.
Some disabilities are inherently prone to subjective rating decisions, especially conditions such as PTSD where much of the information needed to make a rating decision is not physically apparent. This subjectivity leads to inconsistency.
The question is not whether PTSD is real and serious. It's a devastating mental illness. The question is how many veterans have PTSD, and clearly our goal should be to try to address the veterans' needs and help them deal with their problems and move on in life.
The Department of Defense is being eaten out of house and home by health care costs. More retirees are going with military medicine, Congress is allowing more National Guard and reservists to enter (the VA system) and the costs are rising. You have to say if you are going to have this kind of ballooning in PTSD benefits, a review is appropriate.
We need some leadership in Washington to recognize the pending threat of PTSD to veterans and our country as a whole. George Bush doesn't talk about mental health and he doesn't talk about veterans. Veterans' issues are not a big priority for him.