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PTSD affects a large number of service members and impacts their family and friends as well. Keeping an eye on troops to ensure their mental well-being and providing them with the resources and environment to seek help, counseling and treatment are vital to preventing their emotions from developing into serious depression and minimizing those feelings if they do exist.
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Recognizing Dysthymia in Children: When Depression is Chronic at an Early Age
When I was finally diagnosed with depression at age 27, after twenty years of suffering from one type of depressive disorder or another, it was because I was going through a major depression at that particular time. It was only the third major depression I had experienced, and all three had occurred after the age of twenty. For all their ferocity,…
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davidshern, Health Guide, posted After Fort Hood After Fort Hood By David Shern, Ph.D., president and CEO, Mental Health America The tragedy…
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