News Cures For Ptsd Often Remain Elusive For War Veterans

[MyPTSD]

Our nation's veterans continue to suffer emotional and psychological effects of war -- some for decades. And while there has been greater attention directed recently toward post-traumatic stress disorder, and more veterans are seeking help, current psychotherapy treatments are less than optimal, according to a new narrative review.
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[Kintsugi]

BREAKING NEWS: incurable disorder is incurable?!

 

[Friday]

@Simply Simon According to the title, apparently just for vets, tho ;)

 

[EveHarrington]

Seems like a poorly chosen title to me. I wonder if it was chosen by an editor who has no real knowledge of PTSD? I couldn't find the word "cure" in the article itself. (Is it there?)

 

[Ronin]

@FridayJones, quick, time to hide being a vet again, everything else leads to healing, it's a win-win in hiding this time. :cool:

 

[Kintsugi]

@EveHarrington From my experience doing media writing, the title was probably an editorial decision, though you can see where it comes from in this particularly ludicrous paragraph by the uneducated writer:

"Our findings showed that PE and CPT are not as broadly effective as we might have once thought or hoped," says Maria M. Steenkamp, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at NYU Langone and lead author of the study. "As many as two-thirds of veterans receiving CPT or PE keep their PTSD diagnosis after treatment, even if their symptoms improve. So there is room for improvement."

(my emphasis)

 

[EveHarrington]

@EveHarrington From my experience doing media writing, the title was probably an...

I don't understand? I thought we all wanted to get to a point where we would lose enough symptoms so that we wouldn't technically qualify for the disorder anymore. That's always been my understanding, that if someone falls below the minimum threshold for diagnosis that they wouldn't "keep" the diagnosis? I'm talking strictly in a medical records sense. The physiological changes don't revert and the body doesn't endure a miracle cure, thereby going back to a pre-PTSD state, but I do believe that it's possible to fall back to sub-diagnosable levels of symptoms.

 

[Kintsugi]

@eve Harrington I always thought of it as trying to attain something akin to managaed diabetes (you're still diabetic but under control) than something like chicken pox (you always carry it but are in complete remission and therefore do not "have chicken pox"), but diagnostically speaking, I don't know actually. I never thought there would be a time where I would not have PTSD... just figured it's a game of symptom management, not disorder banishment. (Do I get points for rhyming? :woot:)