Prince Harry Competes In Wheelchair Curling - Vancouver

Prince Harry Competes In Wheelchair Curling - Vancouver

Marcy Lynn Dumonceaux, of Winnipeg, receives a hug from Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, after speaking about her PTSD during an Invictus Games wheelchair curling training camp, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Friday, February 16, 2024. Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 is scheduled to take place from Feb. 8 to 16, 2025 and will for the first time feature winter sports. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Prince Harry Competes In Wheelchair Curling - Vancouver

Prince Harry Competes In Wheelchair Curling - Vancouver

Marcy Lynn Dumonceaux, of Winnipeg, receives a hug from Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, after speaking about her PTSD during an Invictus Games wheelchair curling training camp, in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Friday, February 16, 2024. Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 is scheduled to take place from Feb. 8 to 16, 2025 and will for the first time feature winter sports. Photo by Darryl Dyck/CP/ABACAPRESS.COM

37 pct of population displaced from Japan's Fukushima may have PTSD: survey

STORY: 37 pct of population displaced from Japan's Fukushima may have PTSD: survey DATELINE: April 4, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:38 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of street views in Fukushima 2. various of local fishermen STORYLINE: A survey of Fukushima Prefecture residents who evacuated to areas outside the prefecture following the March 2011 nuclear disaster found that nearly 40 percent of respondents may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), local media reported Monday. Waseda University and a citizens group sent questionnaires to 5,350 households mainly in the Kanto region around Tokyo who had fled from Fukushima following the nuclear disaster, and obtained responses from 516. The results indicated that 37.0 percent of the evacuees had PTSD. Behind the high rate are long-term stress factors, including memories of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, drastic changes in living environments and problems resulting from the government's p

Ex-comfort women still suffering effects of WWII treatment

Ex-comfort women still suffering effects of WWII treatment

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean women who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II and their supporters appeal their protest at their weekly rally outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on April 21. They still suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other serious conditions, a Yonsei University institute said in a report earlier in the day.

Boy to join exchange in Japan with hope to cure PTSD

Boy to join exchange in Japan with hope to cure PTSD

NEW YORK, United States - Walter Matsuza (C) poses for a photograph with his mother Denise and brother at their home in New York on July 6. Walter, 10, who lost his father in the Sept. 11 attacks and is going blind because of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), will visit Japan to participate in an international exchange in August.

Prolonged war leaves irreparable scars in Yemeni children's mind

STORY: Prolonged war leaves irreparable scars in Yemeni children's mind DATELINE: Oct. 1, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:47 LOCATION: Sanaa CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of a rehabilitation center for war-affected children in Sanaa, Yemen STORYLINE: The protracted war in Yemen not only brings physical suffering to millions of children but also inflicts a kind of pain that last longer-- psychological trauma. "Many children displayed aphasia or other symptoms of PTSD after they went through heavy bombings. They were overwhelmed by horror and fear," said Suad Al-Haimi, the director of the Al-Tahadi Association for the Disabled in the capital Sanaa. In the rehabilitation center, dozens of children were playing. Many of them talked in sign language, while others were very shy and always tried to avoid eye contact. There are also many children who suffer from dyslexia or even intelligence disabilities because of various traumas during the war. Haimi said she expanded the healthcare wards to accommodate mor

Ex-comfort women still suffering effects of WWII treatment

Ex-comfort women still suffering effects of WWII treatment

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean women who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II and their supporters appeal their protest at their weekly rally outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on April 21. They still suffer post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other serious conditions, a Yonsei University institute said in a report earlier in the day. (Kyodo)

Boy to join exchange in Japan with hope to cure PTSD

Boy to join exchange in Japan with hope to cure PTSD

NEW YORK, United States - Walter Matsuza (C) poses for a photograph with his mother Denise and brother at their home in New York on July 6. Walter, 10, who lost his father in the Sept. 11 attacks and is going blind because of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), will visit Japan to participate in an international exchange in August.