Link – #FacesOfPTSD

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

“What is the #FacesOfPTSD campaign?

#FacesOfPTSD is a social media campaign set to kick-off this Friday, May 6, 2016.

Survivors who identify as having PTSD will flood social media with photos of themselves, along with the tagline, “Not all wars take place on the battlefield,” and the hashtag #FacesOfPTSD. Our goal is to alter the current landscape of social media and search engines (Google, Bing) to include all trauma survivors, particularly women who are rarely represented, in order to reflect more accurately the #FacesOfPTSD.”

If you are dealing with PTSD and want to contribute, obviously do so. If you want to know more about who is dealing with PTSD, follow the hash tag starting today!

#FacesOfPTSD

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