“Hearing I had PTSD – it felt like I didn’t earn it,” said Natalia Chung, 30, who was diagnosed with the disorder in 2016 after ending an abusive relationship. “Because I didn’t go to war,” she said.
Since DiMuria was diagnosed with PTSD in the fall of 2017, she has struggled to avoid the snippets of everyday life that send her into a flashback: The smell of cologne, the sound of certain songs her assaulter liked. Her back broke during the assault, and she tries to avoid glancing in the mirror at the scars from surgery scattered on her skin.
We just need to identify people quicker, get them into treatment quicker, before it becomes this horrific problem. “We just need to identify people quicker, get them into treatment quicker, before it becomes this horrific problem,” Dr Jain said. “Because the reality is, this is a manageable, treatable condition.”
The Body Keeps the Score has been on the paperback best-seller list for nearly 180 weeks in a row and has gained a fervent following.