Boston: Posttraumatic stress disorder affects a lot of people (PTSD). This possibly chronic illness causes disruption in people's lives and might cause new health problems or make pre-existing ones worse, like despair, anxiety, eating disorders, and suicidal thoughts.
Despite the significant frequency of PTSD, only two medications--sertraline and paroxetine--have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat it, and both have demonstrated relatively little efficacy in easing PTSD symptoms.
