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PTSD
February 23, 2023
Tori Otten
Healing After One Mass Shooting Is Hard Enough. How Do You Recover From Two?
Gun violence in America is so bad that victims are suffering from multiple mass shootings.
March 23, 2021
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Can Religion Give You PTSD?
Meet the “exvangelicals” seeking therapy for religious trauma.
December 30, 2019
Matt Farwell
My Own Private Decade From Hell
A brother's death. An honorable discharge. And a harrowing reentry to civilian life.
November 12, 2019
Matt Farwell
The Veterans Day Freebie Anti-PTSD Diet
Armed with the VA's list of discounts and deals, one vet tried to turn the tables and consume this holiday that was consuming him, year after year.
November 11, 2019
Bryan Box
Ghosts of War in a Wisconsin Forest
An Afghanistan veteran's struggle with ecology and memory
October 3, 2016
Brian Beutler
President Obama is trying to dispel the stigma of PTSD in the military. Donald Trump just helped advance it.
August 30, 2016
Ryan Bradley
Full Metal Racket
The number-one disability among vets isn’t PTSD. And it’s getting worse every year.
January 20, 2016
Steven Cohen
Is there anything Barack Obama can’t be blamed for?
June 30, 2015
Jennifer Sky
Child Models Deserve Worker Protections, Too
May 21, 2015
Jeet Heer
Generation PTSD: What the "Trigger Warning" Debate Is Really About
April 20, 2015
Chloe Angyal
The Trauma of Writing About Trauma
Reporters on the nightmares they get from covering war, racism, and rape
January 15, 2015
Naomi Shavin
Do Veterans With PTSD Really Belong on Death Row?
November 16, 2014
Judith Shulevitz
The Science of Suffering
Kids are inheriting their parents' trauma. Can science stop it?
August 1, 2014
Amy Weiss-Meyer
'I Dreamed of a Sudden Death!': Passages from Siegfried Sassoon's Diaries
The haunting private thoughts of one of the twentieth century's best known English soldiers and poets
March 5, 2014
Sarah Sloat
For Boys, Moving to a Wealthier Neighborhood Is as Traumatic as Going to War
Leaving poverty is more complicated than you think.
February 28, 2014
Sarah Sloat
The U.K. Understands How To Treat PTSD. Why Does The U.S. Lag Behind?
New research on soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan
June 13, 2013
Colleen Kimmett
The Painful Politics of Painkillers
Opioids are deadlier than ever, but research into cannabis is still taboo

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