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Military members, their families, and retirees often have greater mental health care needs than civilians.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was once an obscure entry in medical textbooks. Now, it’s the neurological disease associated with repeated blows to the head, known for afflicting more than 300 former NFL players, and perhaps hundreds more (the condition can only be definitively diagnosed post-mortem).

With no consensus on a clinical definition of long COVID, it can be difficult to tell if you have it. Symptoms can include fatigue, shortness of breath, chronic coughing, chest pain, joint pain, and heart palpitations, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Common neurologic signs are cognitive and memory problems known as “brain fog,” headaches, difficulty sleeping, a loss of smell or taste, and depression or anxiety.

Fault Lines investigates how the NFL didn’t compensate players who suffered head trauma playing the most popular US sport.

ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton breaks down myths about suicide and how to help someone contemplating self-harm.

Traumatic brain injury has largely gone unrecognized, untreated, unnoticed and ignored by the institutions charged with caring for those who bear its weight … as well as those who are left picking up the pieces when that load becomes too great to bear at all.

Exposure to trauma can be life-changing—and researchers are learning more about how traumatic events may physically change our brains. But these changes are not happening because of physical injury; rather, the brain appears to rewire itself after these experiences.

The nation’s new 988 hotline, intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency, was out of service for several hours Thursday. Veterans can dial 877-267-6030 or call any VA facility and press 7 to reach the Veterans Crisis Line. The Veterans Crisis Line chat and text (838255) are also available.

"A sentence I never thought I’d say, but have said many times in the last month: thank god for ketamine." This is the third installment in a three-part series about being prescribed ketamine treatment for a traumatic brain injury.

For Colin Shead, photography is an escape from the stresses of police work. -- Read more on Creative Arts Therapies

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a degenerative brain disease that plagues the world of contact sports.