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Veterans Treatment Courts: A Crucial Reintegration Strategy

James R. Knickman | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Afghanistan Veterans, Iraq Veterans, Veterans-Courts, Veterans Mental Health Care, Veterans, Mental Health, Ptsd, New York News

Our legal system must devise new ways to cope with the veterans in the criminal justice system for nonviolent offenses. The first veterans court, in Buffalo, New York, is already showing results.

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What Our Pets Know That We Don't

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Animal Intelligence, Rupert Sheldrake, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Seizure Dog, Pets, Ptsd, Live Longer, Helper Animals, Earthquake Prediction, Animals, Living News

We humans are learning that our pets are pretty smart creatures. Not only have they managed to negotiate free room and board for life, they also help people heal and have learned how to communicate with us using our own language.

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Fort Hood: When Stress Kills

Roberta Lee | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Psychiatry, Killing Spree, Stress Reduction, Majar Nadal Malik, American Muslims, Ptsd, Anxiety, The Balanced Life, Living News

It's beginning to look like our lives are more at stake than we care to acknowledge and if we don't do something different, well...any one of us could be dead sooner than we think.

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Major Hasan Did Not "Catch" Vicarious PTSD

Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Military, Major Hasan, Ptsd, Crime, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News

A well trained psychiatrist or psychologist is not driven into violent frenzy by dealing with the trauma of soldiers, nor do they acquire those soldiers' emotional wounds vicariously.

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Fort Hood Shootings: Soldiers Often 'Racialize' to Cope

Aaron Glantz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psychiatry, Arabs, Fort Hood, Homeless, Iraq, Ptsd, Fort Hood Shootings, Arab Americans, Veterans, Politics News

I was surprised that it was a psychiatrist that shot a lot of people. It's no longer surprising to me that returning veterans would kill a bunch of people. But this guy was a psychiatrist who hadn't been deployed.

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Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? By Columbine's Dave Cullen

Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Dylan Klebold, Islam, Ft. Hood, Columbine Book, Crime, Eric Harris, Ethnicity, Bullying, Terrorism, Fort Hood, Fort Hood Victims, 9/11, Virginia Tech, Guns, Colorado, Texas, Columbine, Religion, Soldiers, Military, Fort Hood Analysis, Psychiatrist, US Soldiers, Nidal Hasan, Ptsd, Home News

My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...

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Of Pachyderms and Paratroopers

G.A. Bradshaw | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fort Hood, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Politics News

To stem widespread Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, we are advised by listening to the veterans who served, survived, and suffer from the ravages of the condition. Their visions and lessons are invaluable.

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Fort Hood Exit Strategy

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Soldiers PTSD, Fort Hood, Ptsd, Fort Hood Shootings, Fort Hood Shooting, Combat, Living News

With the recent tragedy at Fort Hood, the time has come to face up to two facts: War is Hell -- this we know. War is not conducive to mental health -- this we don't want to realize.

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Fort Hood Killings: No Safe Place from Invisible Wounds of War

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dod, Fort Hood, Troops, Army, Army Suicides, Suicide, Ptsd, American Legion, Veterans, Fort Hood Shootings, Walter Reed, Politics News

In the wake of the massacre there will be a tendency to say one man snapped. The truth is anyone could have snapped -- and we need to de-stigmatize PTSD and mental health before someone else does.

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Is This Any Way to Treat Our Heroes?

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homeless Vets, Afghanistan, Iraq, Defense Spending Bill, 9/11/01, Ptsd, Usmc, Politics News

43% of homeless males over 25 are veterans. What kind of a country are we when the men and women who fight for us overseas return to a system that neglects and discards them at home?

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The Stigma of PTSD

Jeremiah Workman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Afghanistan, Fallujah, Veterans, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, World News, Living News

Nutcase. Psycho. Unbalanced. These are some of the words I've been tagged with since being diagnosed with PTSD. Our society's image of the returning warrior with PTSD has been framed by Hollywood.

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Trauma And The Benefits Of Writing About It

Psychology Today | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Therapy, Trauma, Health, Writing, Narrative, Psychology, Ptsd, Writing Therapy, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News

Research by my colleague Jamie Pennebaker and his colleagues suggests that one of the best therapies for this kind of psychological trauma is also one...

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Explore War and Rethink Afghanistan

Joel Epstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Vietnam, Military, Ptsd, Charity, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Veterans, Fish Out of Water Film, Veteran's Day, Annenberg Foundation, World News

Sun Valley Adaptive Sports (SVAS) is a nonprofit project funded by the Annenberg Foundation to support wounded warriors with their recovery and reintegration into society.

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The War at Home

Jeremiah Workman | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Ptsd, Afghanistan, Fallujah, Veterans, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, World News

I learned the hard way that the war doesn't stop when our boots touch home soil again, it just changes form. We're tough guys who don't need help. For generations, that's been the ethos in the military.

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Vietnam, Agent Orange and Secretary Shinseki's Timely Decisions

Trish Kinney | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veterans Administration, The Wall, Vietnam Veterans, Vietnam, Agent Orange, Ptsd, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Eric Shinseki, Politics News

Three new medical conditions may gain presumptive status as to their relationship to Agent Orange exposure. I am heartbroken that we haven't been there for vets when they needed us most.

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Reflections on Suicide

Christopher Lukas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Iraq PTSD, US Marines, Survivor, Afghanistan, General Mark Graham, Army Suicide, US Soldiers, War, Suicide, Iraq, Ptsd, Suicide Prevention, US Army, War on Terror, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Books News

The rate of death by suicide in the armed forces is increasing at alarming rates. Death is terrible, no matter how it comes. But death by suicide leaves those left behind, asking Why? How?

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Andrew Ward: Iraq War Veteran Opens Fire On Police In Lynn, Indiana

AP | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home

Read More: Depression, Mental Health, Marines, Veterans, Va, Suicide, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Lynn, Iraq War, Andrew Ward, Iraq, Indianna, Vets, Anxiety, PTSD Shooting, Home News

LYNN, Ind. — An ex-Marine who served in Iraq has been charged with three counts of attempted murder of a police officer after firing on police. ...

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Eight Years of War. Take Care of Them. They Are Us.

Michael D. Brown | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Iraq War, Army-Psychologists-Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, US Army, Combat, Ptsd, Afghanistan War, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Denver News

You see them in the mall, airport, and restaurants. They are the men and women who serve our nation as Army reservists. We pass them cavalierly, occasionally saying thanks for their service.

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Grey's Anatomy Sheds Light on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Michelle Renee | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michelle Renee, Mental Health, Ptsd, Wellness, Emotional Wellness, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Grey's Anatomy Premiere, Grey's Anatomy, Entertainment News

I want to applaud Grey's Anatomy and share a message with others who have survived violence, abuse, and trauma: Do the work. The simple truth is there really is light at the end of the PTSD tunnel.

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Finally Figuring Out What Helps Troops With Posttraumatic Stress

Belleruth Naparstek | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Durham v.A. Center for Health Services Research, Returning Troops, Jennifer Strauss PhD, Healing Touch, Guided Imagery, Posttraumatic Stress, Imagery Downloads for PTSD, Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, Traumatized Troops, Ptsd, Health, Living News

The tools that work so well are neither complicated nor expensive. They're interventions that ping on the primitive structures in the brain, where posttraumatic stress sits and wreaks its havoc. These are tools like guided imagery, relaxation, meditation, hypnosis, breath work...

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In Le Murder Case Arrest, They Blame Workplace Violence

Michelle Renee | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Yale University, Living, Ptsd, Raymond Clark III, Annie Le, Violent Crime, Le Case, Workplace Violence, Living News

Workplace violence, including the bank robbery-motivated stalking, kidnapping and 14 hour hostage ordeal my daughter and I survived, makes up 18 percent of all violent crimes.

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Iraq Troops' PTSD Rate As High As 35 Percent

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 09.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraq, Troops, Ptsd, Iraq Troops, Iraq War, War in Iraq, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, The Inner Life, Living News

The Veterans' Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers antici...

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Iraq Troops' PTSD Rate As High As 35 Percent: New Study

physorg.com | Posted 09.15.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq PTSD, US Military, Military, U.S. Military, Iraq War Veterans, Iraq Troops PTSD, Ptsd, Military Veterans, Iraq War Vets, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, World News

The Veterans' Administration should expect a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers antici...

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Will DJ AM Quote About PTSD Get People To Finally Listen?

Michelle Renee | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jaycee Dugard, Michelle Renee], Kidnapping, Jaycee Lee Dugard, Violent Crime, Violence, Hostage Survivor, Entertainment News, DJ AM, Ptsd, Held Hostage, Living, Entertainment News

Getting people to take notice of PTSD as it relates to youth and adults who have survived violence, abuse and trauma -- outside of those returning from combat -- has been an uphill climb.

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There Is Always Trauma In The Room

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Community, Healing, Netroots Nation, Ptsd, Trauma, Faith, Compassion, Sharon Salzberg, Living News

I've done a little bit of work with soldiers returning from Iraq and have worked with domestic violence shelter workers on issues of vicarious trauma. I've also found in teaching the diverse groups who come for meditation guidance that, as someone once said to me, "There is always trauma in the room."

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