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PTSD UK Blog
You’ll find up-to-date news, research and information here along with some great tips to ease your PTSD in our blog.
Fundraising Coordinator
We’re hiring! Fundraising Coordinator Role Every year, hundreds of people do something extraordinary for PTSD UK. They run, swim, cycle, skydive, bake, dance and firewalk, and between them they raise the money that keeps our support and awareness work going
Asking for help is hard
Why asking for help for trauma is so hard – and what helps This guest blog is written by Freya Hickman, founder of the trauma support app remind. Freya lives with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following trauma, and it took
A ghost story
Guest Blog: A Ghost Story We’re incredibly grateful to S.K. for sharing this powerful and deeply personal piece with us. In A Ghost Story, S.K. writes with extraordinary honesty about the years spent living with PTSD – the dissociation, the
Thriving leadership programme
PTSD UK is building a new trauma-informed leadership programme Somewhere right now, a manager is sitting across from someone on their team who is clearly struggling. And quietly, they’re thinking: I don’t know what to say. They want to help.
PTSD Awareness Day 2026
PTSD Awareness Day 2026 This Saturday, 27th June 2026 marks International PTSD Awareness Day and we’d love for you to get involved and help us raise our voice, shout louder and drive towards our mission to help support EVERYONE affected
Things I wish I’d known
Things I wish I’d known – Guest Blog Hannah first connected with PTSD UK in 2023, when she shared her story on our blog and ran the Scottish Half Marathon for us. Three years on from the breakdown that led
Treatments for PTSD
It is possible for PTSD to be successfully treated many years after the traumatic event occurred, which means it is never too late to seek help. For some, the first step may be watchful waiting, then exploring therapeutic options such as individual or group therapy – but the main treatment options in the UK are psychological treatments such as Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprogramming (EMDR) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
Traumatic events can be very difficult to come to terms with, but confronting and understanding your feelings and seeking professional help is often the only way of effectively treating PTSD. You can find out more in the links below, or here.