"But as Dr. Charles Raison explained to CNN at the time, having PTSD is not the same as having a psychotic break. And research on the subject, which the Washington Post last year aptly described as “voluminous and inadequate,” tells conflicting stories about what trauma does do. On the one hand, veterans with a PTSD diagnosis are “two to three times more likely to be physically abusive” to their wives and partners, and three times likelier to get into fistfights. But as Paula Schnurr, deputy director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD, notes, “The closer we get to trying to understand how PTSD relates to extreme violence, the more we get anecdotal.”...
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/17/ptsd_doesnt_cause_mass_shootings/singleton/
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