Blue Review
A newsletter for Medicaid providers

June 2018

June Is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Awareness Month

You may have heard of PTSD and think it’s only about military combat. While that is a widely held belief, PTSD is an anxiety disorder that can also happen after going through, or seeing, other upsetting events, including:

  • Natural disasters
  • Terrorist incidents
  • Accidents
  • Physical or sexual attack as a child or adult

In various studies, anxiety is associated with different ailments, such as migraine headaches and gastrointestinal problems.

Magellan Healthcare® provides a Primary Care Physician toolkit that offers clinical guidance for treating anxiety disorders. Also in the Magellan toolkit, you’ll find a patient education handout specific to PTSD under the Anxiety tab/Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.