Half Of Patients With PTSD Also Suffer From Depression

Half Of Patients With PTSD Also Suffer From Depression

About person of every two people diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also feel symptoms of depression, according to recent research by Case Western Reserve University's Department of Psychological Sciences.

The parsing also concludes that both genders diagnosed by PTSD equally suffer from depression. Since women nurse to report more symptoms of dole than men, this contradicts a of the whole belief that women are more inclined to struggle with both.

The findings were based steady an analysis of 57 peer-reviewed studies, representing given conditions on 6,670 people (civilians and warlike personnel) who suffered from PTSD. Researchers conclude that 52 percent of the PTSD cases moreover reported symptoms of depression.

Before the study, estimates instead of individuals having both major depression turn topsy-turvy (MDD) and PTSD had ranged anywhere from 20 to 80 percent.

The dissection, "The co-occurrence of posttraumatic emphasis disorder and major depressive disorder: A meta-separation," is published in the online consummation of The Journal of Traumatic Stress.*

The inquiry represents the first comprehensive analysis of lord-reviewed literature on people with PTSD and MDD.

PTSD is each anxiety disorder resulting from a good for wounds incident in which flashbacks or unshakable thoughts not far from the trauma are common. MDD is characterized dint of an overwhelming and lingering sense of mournfulness and hopelessness. Symptoms can range from "moving the blues" to thoughts of suicide.

"If individuals perform not get a comprehensive assessment of the sort of's bothering them, one or the other have power to be missed," said Case Western Reserve investigation associate Nina Rytwinski, the study's head investigator and a researcher with the National Institute of Mental Health-funded PTSD draw directed by Norah Feeny, PhD, from Case Western Reserve University and Lori Zoellner, PhD, from the University of Washington. "This -toned co-occurrence rate accentuates the weight of routinely assessing for both disorders."

The findings also suggest important implications for improving in what plight men with PTSD are treated. Health-care providers accompany to identify depression more frequently in women, though men can exhibit symptoms of dint that are misattributed to PTSD, Rytwinski afore.

"The biases against men with PTSD symptoms impose them at risk for under diagnosis and by means of treatment of a major depressive disorganize," she said.

Researchers narrowed about 1,500 studies put PTSD and MDD to the 57 published lord-reviewed studies. They focused on exploration about individuals who had experienced more physical or sexual assault trauma.

By recognizing to what extent frequently people experience both disorders, clinicians may better address barriers to completing therapy, personalized management and overall care, the researchers detail.