Critics of PTSD diagnostic criteria, including many soldiers, feel that returning veterans' natural process of adjustment is often mislabeled as a dysfunctional state. Soldiers' Stress: What Doctors Get Wrong about PTSD via vawatchdog.org A growing...
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