The PTSD experience and how to recover from it

The United States, Ukraine and Russia are discussing a possible end to the war. According to President Vladimir Putin, almost 700,000 Russians are fighting in it - more than all the Soviet forces in Afghanistan during the 1979-1989 war. So far, only a small portion of Russian troops are returning home from the front: the seriously wounded and those recruited for limited service. Some of them are involved in fights and commit murders: journalists…

The PTSD experience and how to recover from it

In the world of psychology, PTSD – post-traumatic stress disorder – is how doctors describe the experience of recovering from trauma. This term was created in 1980 and was used to describe soldiers coming back from war: these men and women had often killed people and watched their friends die right in front of them. Extremely traumatic, right? I would like to posit a slightly different definition of PTSD. I define trauma as: “a deeply distressin…