✦ LIBER ✦
Media triggers of post-traumatic stress disorder 50 years after the Second World War
✍ Scribed by Claire Hilton
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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✦ Synopsis
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may present many years after the original trauma. Case studies of two elderly patients are described. Both had experienced life-threatening combat situations and witnessed intense suering during the Second World War. Marked distress was triggered by the media commemorating the ®ftieth anniversary of the end of the war. PTSD patients often avoid talking of their traumatic experiences because of associated distress. Without taking a military and trauma history from elderly patients the diagnosis is likely to be missed.