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National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

A sex trafficking survivor walks in victory, helping other victims

  • Sex trafficking survivors and healing
  • May 19, 2012
"I needed to stop isolating myself and begin to help others. I want to help runaways." Barbara AmayaBarbara Amaya knows what it is like...
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The aftermath of sex trafficking: Dealing with the pain and shame

  • Sex trafficking survivors and healing
  • May 19, 2012
As a survivor of teen sex trafficking, Barbara Amaya was ready to be done with the life of captivity and mandated sex acts with multiple strangers...
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Martha Gutierrez: Mom missing after son kills little sister and self is found

  • Martha Guiterrez found
  • March 22, 2012
Authorities have confirmed that the body found this morning by ranchers about 50 feet off the side of the road of Highway 152 is 52-year-old Martha...
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Amanda Knox free but mental stress may linger forever

Amanda Knox was freed after an Italian court overturned her homicide convictions on Monday (Oct. 3) in a high profile murder case. The decision...
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Anxiety Disorders defined: Panic, OCD, PTSD, GAD

Stress and anxiety are a natural part of everyday life and most of us experience it more often than not in today’s very stressful world. It...
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Wartorn a film about PTSD by James Gandolfini debuts on Veterans Day

  • HBO
  • October 30, 2010
Wartorn 1861-2010 is a HBO documentary about the effects that war can have on a person's mental health, premiering on Veteran's Day,...
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National PTSD Awareness Day

Today designated National PTSD Awareness Day 27 June 2010.The U.S. Senate passed a resolution authored by Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., designating...
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CAP for wounded warriors-Assistive technologies

Assistive Technology Assistive technologies ensure that people with disabilities have equal access to information/electronic and telecommunication...
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Suspect in Fort Hood shooting alive and in custody

The shooting at Ft. Hood in Texas was the shocking headline news on November 5, 2009. A soldier opened fire at the U.S. Military base Fort Hood and...
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Evidence-based psychotherapies for treating PTSD to be studied

Using funds awarded from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Joan Cook, Ph.D. and colleagues from Yale University will be...
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