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National Conference on Mental Health
June 3, 2013
This is a Conference which is convening this week. This National Conference on Mental Health is primarily one that reaches out to the Community to discuss and put a spotlight on the work that is being done to help eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health. Of course this effort contains...
Read more →New Post From Military Serviceman
June 1, 2013
I have been in court twice because I disagreed with the powers that be. In California women with PTSD are treated same as any. They are not the same and only made sicker by the authorities. Proud to say in my county that don’t happen. It is not against the...
Read more →Significant Traumatic Incident -PTSD
April 20, 2013
I have often been asked what it is like to have PTSD. Of course after all these years it is hard to completely describe it but recently the incident at the Boston Marathon Race might give you a clue. There are thing that happen in life that you will always...
Read more →War Statistics- PTSD
April 8, 2013
Here are some of the latest statistics from the military More than6,000 US Troops have been killed since 2001 More than 4,400 US Troops died in Iraq More than 1,600 US Troops died in Afghanistan More than 45,000 US Troops have been wounded since 2001 More of our Service Members are...
Read more →PTSD Study
March 16, 2013
We will be working with a research psychologist who is interested in doing a 25 person study with both PTSD victims and/ or their loved ones. This could be a PTSD family member, wife, or partner. The study will be supervised by a licensed psychologist and the subjects will only...
Read more →Women and PTSD
March 7, 2013
It has been statistically proven that women suffer twice as much as men from PTSD. I don’t quite know why this is true but it is a statistic that I learned by taking a PTSD test recently. Since I’m not a female I can’t really speak to this and I...
Read more →Drone Pilots and PTSD
February 28, 2013
Just saw this article and was struck with the idea that no one escapes. I was actually surprised to hear this. I had thought that people away from the on site fighting and violence were more immune to PTSD but after reading the article I understand how immersed these drone...
Read more →Sequestration and You
February 27, 2013
Here are some truth and fiction answers to some of the rumors that are floating around. PTSD people have enough to worry about without worry about things that may not be true. This has been taken from an actual military article. Questions and rumors about what might happen are making...
Read more →Moral Injury-PTSD
February 21, 2013
You probably know by now that I do a lot of reading and thinking about PTSD. I try and look for signs in books or movies about PTSD even if it isn’t specifically stated. So it is rather rare that I find something that I hadn’t noticed or heard about...
Read more →Cool Hand Luke- PTSD
February 18, 2013
I watched “Cool Hand Luke” on TV this week-end and besides the “I can eat 50 eggs” quote the one that stands out for me is the Strother Martin’s quote, “What we have here, is a failure to communicate.” It hit me across the face that this is exactly one...
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