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Gun violence in American is increasing, not only on crowded city streets, but in small towns that don't have access to the trauma care that can save lives.
Firearms are the leading cause of death among children. A 2023 study in the journal Pediatrics found that gun-related injuries are the leading cause of death for young people in the U.S., with ...
This category includes grief, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and other forms of moral injury and mental disorders caused or inflamed by war. Between the start of the Afghan war in October 2001 and June 2012, the demand for military mental health services skyrocketed, according to Pentagon data .
Perpetrators of school shootings tend to be male and have access to a loaded firearm. They are more likely than their peers to suffer from a mental illness (anxiety, depression, psychopathy), to have had a history of violence or delinquency, to have experienced a traumatic event in their childhood, [10] and to report having been bullied by their peers. [11]
The therapies and drugs developed to treat PTSD don’t get at the root of moral injury, experts say, because they focus on extinguishing fear. PTSD therapy often takes the form of asking the patient to re-live the damaging experience over and over, until the fear subsides.
The same study also cites that many other mental disorders are not associated with an increased risk of violence, of note: depression, anxiety disorders and intellectual disability. Homicidal ideation may arise in people who are otherwise quite well, [ 1 ] as is demonstrated by the fact that the greater majority of people within the general ...
“With suicide you have that added trauma to it,” said Julie Cerel, the president of the American Association of Suicidology. “The ‘why’ question of trying to search for meaning when there’s no meaning available—If I only had a note. If I only talked to the last person that they talked to. The ‘onlys’ can be torturous.’”
Evidence-based, trauma-focused psychotherapy is the first-line treatment for PTSD. [1] [2] [3] Psychotherapy is defined as a treatment where a therapist and patient build a therapeutic relationship and focus on the patient's thoughts, attitudes, affect, behavior, and social development to lessen the patient's psychopathologies and functional impairment.