Traumatic events that may trigger the disorder include violent personal assaults, natural or human-caused disasters, accidents, or military combat. PTSD wasn’t officially named until 1980, but the first documented case was reported nearly 4,000 years ago in Egypt by a physician who noted a victim’s “hysterical” reaction to trauma. The debilitating, sometimes life-threatening symptoms are one reason that dozens of studies on the disorder are under way, from Israel to the Netherlands and in several major U. Decades after they served in Vietnam, thousands of veterans still suffer the trauma-linked PTSD symptoms. read more

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The former Sidney High School student who confessed to making two bomb threats earlier this year has been sentenced to time in a state medical facility. Based on a plea bargain, Andrea Frohlich was sentenced by District Judge Katherine Irigoin to 10 years in a state mental facility. Prior to the sentencing, Frohlich read a letter of apology addressed to the Sidney School District. Irigoin said school records don’t show how the school district paid teachers more than normal because of the bomb threats. Sidney man guilty of meth possessionA jury found Bobby John Harris, Sidney, guilty of the offense of possession of methamphetamine during a trial June 12 at the U. Froid Research Farm tour set for June 28 The annual Froid Research Farm tour is scheduled for June 28 this year. read more

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