Section 1: Understanding TBI & PTSD

What is PTSD?

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychological health injury that may occur after an extremely traumatic or life-threatening event. 

These traumatic events may include military combat, violent personal assaults (e.g., rape, mugging, robbery), terrorist attacks, natural or man-made disasters, or horrific accidents.

The event, directly experienced or witnessed in another person, involves actual or threatened death, serious injury or threat to one's physical integrity. The person's response to the event is one of intense fear or helplessness.