Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Madeline Soto, 13-year-old girl, was diagnosed with ADHD. She was sexually abused. Madeline Soto was first reported missing on February 26 after she failed to turn up for class at her Orlando middle school. Her body was discovered in the woods in Osceola County four days later. She was strangled to death. Stephan Sterns, 37-year-old, […]

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Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

People who experience chronic trauma that continues or repeats for months or years at a time. Some have suggested that the current PTSD diagnosis does not fully capture the severe psychological harm that occurs with prolonged, repeated trauma. In 1988, Dr. Judith Herman of Harvard University suggested that a new diagnosis, complex PTSD, was needed