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Finally Figuring Out What Helps Troops with Posttraumatic Stress

By Belleruth Naparstek — 2009

The tools that work so well are neither complicated nor expensive. They’re interventions that ping on the primitive structures in the brain, where posttraumatic stress sits and wreaks its havoc. These are tools like guided imagery, relaxation, meditation, hypnosis, and breath work.

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Trauma-Related Guilt in People with PTSD

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Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Treat PTSD Caused by Racism, Discrimination: Researchers

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Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD)