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Death by PTSD: When Patients Are Afraid of Health Care

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Over the year I’ve had several patients like Clarisse; younger people who refused to seek medical care or declined treatments that might have cured them. But there was a common thread: all were intensely distrustful, avoidant, and afraid. Effects of PTSD in patient response to health care.

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Prolonged Grief Disorder: Holly Prigerson

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She recalls being “a social scientist [Holly] in room full of psychiatrists,” who recognized a diagnostic gap in people experiencing profound and potentially harmful grief far after the death of a loved one. Prolonged grief is associated with increased risk of suicide and other negative health outcomes. Alex: And why this song?

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