PTSD name change heartens advocates

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Advocates of a name switch for post-traumatic stress disorder want to change the term “disorder” to “injury” to reduce the stigma of the treatable illness and urge reluctant military service members who suffer from PTSD to seek help, authorities say.

A push to destigmatize the illness could mean health insurance companies or service disability claims could be treated differently than they are today, observers said. Changing disorder to injury “might help in terms of stigma, but it might hurt in terms of disability (claims),” said Larry C. James, a retired Army psychologist and dean of Wright State University School of Professional Psychology in Fairborn.

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