A new study by Veterans Affairs Research Communications shows that post-traumatic stress cost an estimated $232.2 billion in 2018, exceeding the cost of other common mental health conditions.
“While it's considered a military condition or a condition reserved for people who work in dangerous professions, it's more common than people think,” Sherman Gillums Jr., the chief strategy and impact officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness , said.“PTSD is a very complicated treatment,” Dr. Steven Berkowitz, professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said.
“In some ways, I'm not surprised given our work and knowing how much systems are often involved for people who have PTSD,” Berkowitz said.“Let’s just assume that you need a year's worth of treatment,” he said. “Fifty weeks a year, $200 a week. That's a significant amount of money, that's $10,000 right there. Then the medical costs, prescription costs."
“Divorce, legal fees, child custody costs, that can all result from the mental health situation whether it’s being dealt with or not,” Maulsby said.“We’re putting so much money on the back end to deal with these things,” he said. “We can prevent people from being traumatized.”
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