Helping heal our heroes' hidden wounds

Chris Engel 5/20/136:00 PM

"Their latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is being changed.

"And the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis have loosened.

"You don't have to have been exposed to a dramatic event, as previously was in the diagnoses," Wolff added.

"It was described as an event that left a person feeling intense fear, helplessness or horror.

"The kind of response a soldier may have to a severe injury or witnessing a comrade killed.

"But often times, veterans do not experience such an event, but do experience prolonged stress that can follow them home.

"That could now earn them a PTSD diagnosis...."

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