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Your Employment Rights Under the ADA: A Complete Guide for People with Disabilities
...life activities. That includes physical impairments like mobility limitations or chronic conditions, and mental impairments like depression, anxiety, PTSD, or learning disabilities. "Substantially limits" doesn't mean you can't do the activity at all. It means the impairment makes it significantly harder...
Health > Mental Health
When Medical Care Becomes Traumatic: PTSD in Disabled Children and Their Families
...Caregivers, meanwhile, carry the weight of advocating, consenting, and witnessing, often while managing their own fear and exhaustion. The result can be PTSD. Not the dramatic version portrayed in media, but the clinical reality: intrusive memories, hypervigilance, avoidance of medical settings, and a nervous...
Special Needs > Asperger Syndrome
Blessing in Disguise by Robin Flutterby Borakove
...and help me become mainstreamed. The first thing the doctor did was to get my history. Though there is no solid proof, my doctor believes that I had PTSD since birth. We do know my mother had an accident when she was 7 months pregnant with me. She fell hard on an icy road and broke her Coccyx, and sprained...
Health > Diagnosis
The Future of Diagnosis with DSM-5
...Depressive Disorders Obsessive-Compulsive and related disorders Personality Disorders Trauma and Stressor-related Disorders (including RAD and PTSD) Sexual Dysfunction and Gender Dysphoria Somatic Symptom Disorders Other areas of the DSM are being revised as well, and it seems like no stone...