Adam Shepherd
The line between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is sometimes blurry, despite the fact that they are classified as different and distinct diseases. Their distinction is based on the premise that PTSD is caused mostly by psychological stress, whereas TBI is caused by a known brain damage. This difference is founded on an outmoded polarity between mind and brain, and in day-to-day psychiatric treatment and research, the distinction between the two illnesses often becomes arbitrary