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A Brush With Death: Near Death Experiences
Not many return from the dead. However, sometimes people are fully submerged in temporary moments of death, before returning back to the living. Researchers call…
Traumatic Illness: The Unlikely Relationship Between Cancer and PTSD
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) manifests as a result of experiencing traumatic events (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). It can be triggered through exposure to life or…
Traumatic Coverage: The Link Between PTSD and the Media?
In an increasingly socialized and globalized era, people are able to convey and exchange new ideas at a rapid speed. Information that would previously require…
Traumatic Experiences and their Relationship with Eating Disorders
We often connect eating disorders to body dissatisfaction brought on by societal standards of beauty. However, the root of eating disorder are often more tangled…
PTSD and Addiction: A Duel Diagnosis
At some point, whether in real life or Hollywood movies, you’ve probably heard someone say, “I need a drink” after dealing with a stressful situation. Many…
Gaming, Virtual Reality, and PTSD
Video games, spanning from the early days of Tetris and Super Mario Brothers, to Minecraft, Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty, have been a…
PTSD, Stigma, and Treatment; the Clinical Perspective.
Nicholas Eaton, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of psychology at Stony Brook University. As someone who has experience with both the clinical side of psychology…
PTSD and Cannabis; Conflicts Between Research and Implementation
“Imagine knowing something about yourself more than you know anything, and at the same time knowing how unreal it is. This part of you has…