post traumatic stress disorder

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

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Dr. Joy DeGruy (formerly Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary), author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, is a member of the Bahá’í faith community. Understanding this context breathes deeper meaning into Dr. DeGruy’s work than I would have had without this knowledge. I recently spent a week with a family [...]

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Trust Betrayed: Sexual Assault in the Military

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“Military sexual trauma (“MST”) is the term that the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to refer to sexual assault or repeated, unsolicited, threating acts of sexual harassment — that occurred while the veteran was in the military.” Some comments to orient you, the reader, to what MST survivors go through/think like: * “While in (the [...]

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Combat trauma afflicts women, men alike

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A few months ago, I attended the week-long clinical training program in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the National Center for PTSD in Menlo Park (Veterans Administration) as well as the “Brain at War” conference in San Francisco, put on by the Department of Defense. Both made clear how much money is being spent on [...]

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Did you hear that?! Well, if ya’ didn’t, TURN IT UP!!!!!

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Okay, okay!! Truth’s out!! I’m one of those people who turn their music up really loud in the car. No, I mean REALLY loud!! Yup! I won’t lie to ya’. Make note of that. I won’t lie to you. But, back to the topic at hand, playing the music in my car, it’s reeeaaallllly loud! [...]

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