ptsd

Sometimes You Have to Choose to Love — A Love Story after PTSD

Into the dearth of “good news” about combat veterans with PTSD and their partners comes the remarkable love story of Josh and Helen, who met and fell in love AFTER his service, his suicide attempts, and his PTSD diagnosis. While PTSD can seem like the “third partner” in a relationship — the ever-present elephant in [...]

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When “Luck” Doesn’t Seem So “Lucky” After All: Coping with Survivors’ Guilt

by Lily Casura

Survivors’ guilt, at its most basic, is about coming to terms with the very arbitrary nature of luck/fortune/chance. Some tragedies in life pass by us; others touch us directly. Woody Allen had an old joke, when someone asked him if he’d like to achieve immortality through his work. No, he said, “I’d like to achieve [...]

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Too Tough to Heal: Is That Your Identity?

by Lily Casura

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. Henry Ford There’s an old-ish Don Henley song where he asks, “How Bad Do You Want it?” And though he was singing about sex, the topic could just as easily be healing, when that question is on the table. (Even Jesus was [...]

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For the Combat Veteran with PTSD, Heavy Drinking Doesn’t Help

by Lily Casura

The source of the following material may surprise you: “Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?” None other than the book of Proverbs, a staple in the Judeo-Christian wisdom literature, which goes on to warn about the perils of drinking too much: [...]

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The Greatest Generation: A Silent Struggle — with Suicide

by Lily Casura

Aaron Glantz, the author of The War Comes Home is one of a handful of reporters uniformly worth reading when it comes to war and veterans issues. Lately Glantz has particularly been on a roll, with his new gig at The Bay Citizen, which produces the San Francisco/Bay Area content for the New York Times. [...]

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

by Thomas Norman DeWolf

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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Welcoming our veterans home – finally

by Lily Casura

With Veteran’s Day approaching, it’s time to think about an often-neglected theme, which is the “Welcome Home” that many veterans never had. The Vietnam veterans, who fought, died, and suffered — not only on the battlefields of Southeast Asia, but also here at home. Talk to any group of Vietnam veterans, or even singly, and [...]

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VetWow’s Short Podcasts for MST Survivors, Friends and Family

by Lily Casura

Susan Avila Smith Military Sexual Trauma, like PTSD another “invisible wound,” is unfortunately more prevalent in the military than we would want to believe, though little discussed officially. It’s different though when combatants get together who have experienced it. Among female service members in particular, it is all too often a common experience; and whether [...]

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Within The Mind’s Eye: An Interview with Dr. David Grand

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

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http://momentscount.com Within the Mind’s Eye: An adventure in seizing the moment, an interview with Dr. David Grand, inventor of Brainspotting, a revolutionary therapeutic technique that can effectively treat PTSD, ADD and ADHD, addictions, cravings, stuttering, phobias, anxiety and panic, anger and rage. It can greatly enhance pain management, sports performance, acting performance and creativity in general. And it can do this at warp speed when compared to other therapies.

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Trust Betrayed: Sexual Assault in the Military

by Lily Casura

“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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