PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury, are certainly not unique to veterans. As a group, however, they have the largest percentages of people suffering from these conditions. Because of the severity of their symptoms, a lot of attention has been focused on them, as it should be. Let's not forget, however, that a lot of other people go undiagnosed because they have not been in the Armed Forces. Often their war zone is at home or in their neighborhood or maybe at work. Because there are no guns, we don't look for the symptoms or recognize them. We think that it's
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