LocalSYR's Bridge Street
PTSD Awareness Month
Friday, July 6, 2018,
By Essence Britt
, program manager of the Undergraduate Trauma Research Training Program with Falk College, was featured in a segment on to discuss PTSD Awareness Month.
In the United States, eight percent of the population suffers from PTSD. Castro shared with Bridge Street what post-traumatic stress disorder is. He states, “PTSD isn’t just one thing. To get diagnosed with PTSD is just a cluster of different symptoms that have a specific pattern.” He clarifies that everyone can get the disorder, but “for some people in the military, it’s more prevalent.”