TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. —
June is Nationwide Submit-Traumatic Stress Dysfunction Consciousness Month and we’re speaking about it on this episode of Tinker Talks.
PTSD Consciousness Month is devoted to spreading consciousness to PTSD and to encourage these fighting signs of PTSD to hunt therapy.
Maj. Carla Turrentine, 72nd Medical Group psychological well being aspect chief discusses PTSD, its signs, prevalence within the navy, therapy challenges and boundaries to looking for assist, and the way the 72nd MDG helps personnel with psychological sickness.
PTSD is a psychological well being situation that’s triggered by a terrifying occasion. Individuals who have skilled or witnessed a traumatic occasion equivalent to a pure catastrophe, a critical accident, a terrorist act, struggle/fight, or bodily or sexual assault could develop PTSD.
In line with the Diagnostic and Statistical Handbook of Psychological Problems, fifth version, some frequent signs of PTSD embody issues like sleep disturbance, hypervigilance, hassle concentrating, irritable habits or types of self-destructive habits.
The Army Well being System affords quite a lot of sources for these affected by PTSD.
For veterans and their households, there’s a hotline by the PTSD Basis of America specialised in offering referrals, info, and sources. To succeed in the hotline, sufferers can name (877) 717-PTSD (7873). For extra recommendation contact your native navy Psychological Well being Clinic and take a look at the next sources:
Within the newest version of the Tinker Talks Podcast, Maj. Carla Turrentine, 72nd Medical Group psychological well being aspect chief talks about Nationwide Submit-Traumatic Stress Dysfunction, its signs, its prevalence within the navy, PTSD therapy challenges and boundaries to looking for assist, and the way the 72nd MDG helps personnel with psychological sickness.
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