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On the recordMarch 11, 2014
I refer to it as PTS rather than PTSD because I think that calling it a disorder gives it a kind of stigma that is completely unjustified.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal emphasizes the stigma associated with the term PTSD.

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