By Laura Newberry, Illustration: Patrick Hruby/Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2023
Post-traumatic stress disorder is one of the most common mental health conditions in the world, with an estimated six out of every 100 people in the United States alone experiencing PTSD at some point in their lives — a figure that doesn’t account for people who live with complex trauma.
Yet despite its pervasiveness, available treatments for PTSD don’t work for at least a third of people with the condition. There are no pharmaceutical drugs approved for treating the particularities of PTSD, only the depression and anxiety that very often comes with it.
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