Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is considered the most prevalent mental disorder among military personnel returning from deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq. Surveys show 12.6 percent of veterans of the Iraq war and 6.2 percent of Afghanistan veterans have been diagnosed with PTSD. When the US Department of Veteran Affairs asked the Institute of Medicine to review the literature on the best interventions for PTSD, their report, Treatment of PTSD: An Assessment of the Evidence (2007), found there ...

Yesterday, my editor-in-chief Judith Mitiguy emailed the staff this link https://www.health.harvard.edu/topic/stress with a simple note: “Some good advice for busy, stressful times.” Talk about an understatement! I immediately clicked on the link, and found a website with some highly useful information nurses will want to pass on to their patients, friends and families.

The Stress Resource Center was developed by Harvard Health Publications at Harvard Medical School, with the goal ...