Surprising PTSD Findings

New research out of Yale has found that PTSD doesn’t necessarily lead to only fear-based symptoms like flashbacks but instead a whole other set of more internal responses.

PTSD just as often triggers emotional pain and internal distress, including loss of interest, negative beliefs, negative emotions, trouble sleeping, and emotional reactivity.

And when participants were asked how their symptoms interfered with daily life, almost 70% rated emotional pain as more impairing than fear.

“PTSD is highly heterogeneous, yet most diagnostic frameworks and treatment models have historically centered on fear-related processes,” says Ziv Ben-Zion, PhD, assistant professor adjunct at Yale School of Medicine. “We hypothesized that fear captures only part of the clinical picture.”

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