PTS is much better than PTSD

As psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Shay says below “I really don’t like the term ‘PTSD.”   SFTT doesn’t like the term either and internally we prefer “PTS” or Post Traumatic Stress.  Clearly, there is a stigma attached to the term “disorder” but it also suggests – erroneously – that this debilitating problem of great personal and social significance is simply a “disorder” that can be medicated or treated and that the individual afflicted with PTS will soon

lead a normal and healthy life.

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