Is PTSD Contagious?

It’s rampant among returning vets—and now their spouses and kids are starting to show the same symptoms.

Researchers posit that traumatic brain injury can make the brain more vulnerable to PTSD, or that it can exacerbate its symptoms of exhaustion, agitation, confusion, headaches.

Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/ptsd-epidemic-military-vets-families?page=2