Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Trauma PSAs offer help as September 11 reminders trigger emotional reactions

Published in Bioterrorism Week, October 7th, 2002

A new campaign will inform Americans about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - a chronic and painful form of emotional injury - through television public-service announcements, four sponsoring organizations have announced.

In the weeks leading up to the September 11 anniversary, television and cable outlets will be offered 3 30-second public service announcements calling attention to the signs and causes of PTSD and directing viewers to a newly launched website - www.ptsd.info - that offers medically accurate information about traumatic injury and links to agencies and organizations with information about coping with emotional injury.

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Source: Bioterrorism Week (2002-10-07)

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