PTSD Awareness Day 2025
PTSD Awareness Day 2025
Support veterans’ mental health
What is PTSD Awareness Day?
PTSD Awareness Day (27 June) is dedicated to increasing understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its impact.
First recognised in 2010 by the United States Senate, it has since gained global recognition, with June now observed as PTSD Awareness Month in many countries, including the UK.
National PTSD Awareness Day recognises the effect post-traumatic stress has on the lives of those impacted by it.
How is Combat Stress supporting PTSD Awareness Day?
As the leading charity for veterans’ mental health, we are running a campaign through the month of June to raise awareness of the causes, symptoms, impact, and treatment for PTSD in relation to veterans.
Join us on PTSD Awareness Day (27 June 2025) to help raise awareness of the devastating impact of PTSD and show your support for veterans by wearing our PTSD pin badge.
Click the link to purchase your PTSD pin badge: PTSD Awareness Day Pin Badge – Support Veterans’ Mental Health | Combat Stress Trading Ltd
Specialist training available
Combat Stress will be offering a specialist training programme to mark PTSD Awareness Day (27 June 2025)
• The training course called ‘Trauma and PTSD’ will be available between Monday 23 June and Thursday 3 July.
• There are two different variants of the course available – one for friends, family and carers of veterans and the other is aimed at professionals employing veterans.
There are seven short courses within the programme including;
• What Is PTSD?
• PTSD and the brain
• PTSD and the family
• How to support someone with PTSD
• Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD)
• The impact to exposure to traumatic material; vicarious traumatisation
• Moral Injury
The programme takes approximately 90 minutes to complete and can be undertaken in an individual’s own time at a pace to suit them.
On Thursday 3 July, all those who have completed the course will have the opportunity to have an interactive live one-hour Q & A session with Dr Vicky Aldridge, Principal Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead at Combat Stress.
During the session Vicky will answer any further questions about PTSD or the training undertaken. Registration for the training opens on 23 May and access to the training courses begins on Monday 23 June.
To register please visit: combatstress.org.uk/ptsd-training
To find out more about the signs, symptoms and treatment for PTSD and how to get help and how to support the campaign please click on the links below: