PTSD at Sea
Post-traumatic stress disorder has likely existed as long as humans have. However, the term PTSD and an understanding of the condition only made its way into the general public’s awareness when veterans returning from the Vietnam War struggled to resume their lives at home. Since then, the condition has been well documented as not only affecting soldiers coping with battlefield experiences, but anyone who has experienced a traumatic event.
Psychotherapy programs have been established to help combat the psychiatric disorder, including at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. The school’s Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety lists traumatic events ranging from “life-threatening accidents, such as automobile accidents, airplane crashes, or boating accidents, both
