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December 21st, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
December 21, 2015
A team at Brown University (BU) have published a study concerning the lack of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research on the millions of nonveterans who have the condition.
PTSD is not “just a disease of veterans” because “sexual assault victims, abused children [and] survivors of natural disasters” have it too, but they do not “necessarily have a [Veterans Affairs] to go to” for treatment.
Those who have the disease, but are not veterans, find it “daunting to get connected to care”. For most of them, they go untreated and “may develop other medical problems” which can raise the cost of healthcare for these individuals.
PTSD can cause sufferers to become less productive, jobless, and even homeless. It can cause “marital and family discord” which results in “broken families”.
According to the study: “PTSD is not only a huge healthcare problem, it is a huge cost.”
Judith Bentkover, professor with the BU School of Public Health and lead author of the study explained : “For the other people affected by PTSD — victims of sexual assault, child abuse and natural disasters — there really isn’t an organized body of research that generates guidance for how they and their caregivers should deal with their PTSD.”
Bentkover added: “We know that gender, race, and culture affect how people deal with anxiety. The research that there is to date doesn’t provide a robust evidence base for treating PTSD in specific vulnerable subpopulations, by either sociodemographic cohort or by cause of PTSD. And where there are some good studies, we need better ways of organizing, synthesizing, retrieving, and translating the information we do have so that all treatment providers, patients, and caregivers can benefit from this knowledge.”
For this study, Bentkover’s team “reviewed the academic and economic research literature on civilian PTSD treatment as well as consumer-oriented websites.”
During the analysis, the team discovered that “too little is available to help nonveterans or their doctors understand, compare, and access treatment they believe would be right for them.”
The researchers wrote: “Caregiver and patient-centered Internet searches for PTSD treatment programs and support resources located sites that were often rich in information but not necessarily organized to facilitate consumer decision-making. Generally speaking, consumer websites could perform several key functions more effectively, such as simplifying complex evidence regarding treatments, identifying areas of consensus versus controversy, and providing concrete tips for navigating among the different treatment options and providers.”
But when it comes to the purveying effects of PTSD, researchers with the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam have found that this disorder has the potential of reoccurring long after the veteran has left service.
Using information provided by the VA, the team identified several characteristics of PTSD that persist up to 5 years, including:
• Inability to concentrate
• Hyper-sensitivity to sounds
• Overwhelming feelings of shame and guilt
• Constant fear
• Disorientation
• Nightmares
So far, the majority of PTSD research has focused on the short-term; however, half a decades after the incident that caused the condition, veterans still feel stress and anxiety that appears to intensify over time.
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