Well, you'd have to diagnose people retrospectively. PTSD didn't exist as a diagnosis until the 1970s, although if you include the diagnosis of combat exhaustion then some reports peg the rate at about 10% between 1942 and 1945 - and that's without the diagnostic criteria and tools we have now. Currently we see rates…

I have hearted you, because you bring me joy. I must complain, however, about your grammar and word usage. It's not that you did anything wrong, I just feel you should have used other words that are more like the words I use.

Will never happen, but can you imagine being charged with 150 million counts of unlawful surveillance (one for each handset they admit the software is on)?

I'm not sure who you're arguing with. I've already agreed with you. I never suggested treating only the physiological symptoms (and said specifically in my last response that treating both at the same time was often the most effective option). I have no interest in arguing the point, though, because we have no…

If you click on my name and read some of my other comments on this article you'll see I agree with you regarding the efficacy of this treatment. It seems like symptom management, rather than a cure. I simply disagree that PTSD is "completely psychological"... because there are a number of physiological changes…

You have a $250 toaster? I have a $50 toaster oven, and it was about $20 more than I figured it was worth, but the width was just right for my available counter top.

"in 2007, bandits removed a section of a wall"

Yes, but sometimes people make jokes, see, and jokes aren't supposed to be taken literally.

That's really cool... I just have never used a dock... but if I did it would totally be worth $59 to get in on the ground floor.

But it's not almost completely psychological - your post is a perfect example. Long-term stress causes all sorts of physiological changes from inhibiting BDNF (which may be why people with PTSD have more memory problems than controls and some studies have found decreased hippocampal volumes) to immune suppression.

Good book!

It also doesn't sound like a cure. Inhibiting autonomic responses to internal mental states doesn't necessarily affect the presence of those mental states - the intrusive memories, nightmares, etc. Guided imagery and reprocessing (therapy) is intended to work through the trauma (under the assumption that it's…

PTSD is a difficult disorder for a lot of reasons. It was never intended to be as diagnosed as widely as it is today - where you can claim PTSD from sexual harassment at work (not a matter to take lightly, but not traumatic in the way that warfare is, either). The original diagnostic criteria called for a person to…

Republicans dominate "honey badger," with... uhh, one occurrence.

"What is still unclear is whether the FBI used Carrier IQ's software in its own investigations, whether it is currently investigating Carrier IQ, or whether it is some combination of both ... [t]he response would seem to indicate at least the former, since the request was specifically for documents related directly to…

That was my first thought. When SEAL Team Six went into Pakistan they ended up blowing up a helicopter to prevent it from falling into anyone's hands. But our top secret drones have no self-destruct? Seems like poor planning (maybe they need to let the SEALs run the drone program).

How much of you shows on your license? In WA it's just your head, from a couple of inches below your jaw, up (obviously). You'd have to be wearing a scarf to get text in your photo.

Yeah, they really can't. At least WA licenses have holograms and other safety features not easily captured by your smartphone camera...

Netflix did it for me, for serious. I mean, even though I can't always watch what I want, there's enough there I do want that I figure it's too inconvenient to go find a torrent with seeds and spend a few hours downloading the third season of Community when I could just go watch How I Met Your Mother right now.

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't keep the party focused on you. After about 15 minutes everyone would leave a wide berth around the dude with whom it's impossible to talk because there's an eight inch bass thumping on his back.