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Soldiers Ptsd

What Telling Our Truths Demands

Leila Levinson | Posted 04.25.2013 | Healthy Living
Leila Levinson

I am doing this so that the public can witness the trauma that follows war. Witness. Because this trauma is as much yours as it is ours. Witness and own it. Witnessing breaks the isolation trauma creates. Witnessing furthers the healing of individuals and of our society.

Time to Listen to Veterans Tell Their Truths

Leila Levinson | Posted 04.18.2013 | Impact
Leila Levinson

We are 12 adults preparing for a play. We are veterans and family members of veterans. The audience will be civilians. Just as children learn through play, so is our play teaching us, transforming us.

The Man in the Snow

Daniel Davis | Posted 02.20.2013 | Impact
Daniel Davis

Soldier families suffer indescribable pain and suffering from dealing with those hundreds of thousands of casualties. But to most of us the above is a stat sheet; merely numbers. We are unable to relate to what those numbers mean in a practical, emotional, and spiritual sense.

Time to Pay the Price of War

Leila Levinson | Posted 11.21.2012 | Healthy Living
Leila Levinson

Help has been slow to come for members of our military and our veterans in crisis. Nearly 1 million veterans from various wars await a ruling from the Veterans Administration on their claims for disability.

Healing A War-Torn Spirit (WATCH)

Marlowe Brown | Posted 07.28.2012 | Healthy Living
Marlowe Brown

Memorial Day is a day of remembrance of those who have died in our nation's service. Regardless of what our opinions are about war, one fact remains: There are thousands of people who survive who are in great need of healing.

Yoga Stress Relief for Soldiers

Elaine Gavalas | Posted 07.17.2012 | Healthy Living
Elaine Gavalas

Faced with the highest army suicide rates in at least 30 years, U.S. military officials are examining ways to help treat psychologically wounded soldiers.

Man's Best Friend Should Not Be a Pill

Irwin Stovroff | Posted 05.27.2012 | Impact
Irwin Stovroff

No doubt, painkillers are often an absolute necessity to veterans suffering from excruciating and debilitating pain. But even in these cases, we need to go further in offering substantive, long-term treatments that will help veterans return to their lives and fulfill their dreams.

Afghanistan Shootings Raise Questions On PTSD

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 05.23.2012 | World

SAN DIEGO — It is still not known if the soldier accused of killing 17 Afghans was ever diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder – bu...

Time for a Federal Veterans Court

Leila Levinson | Posted 04.29.2012 | Crime
Leila Levinson

While the emergence of veterans courts is an invaluable reform, no state mandates them. It is up to the individual county whether to create a veterans court. This creates a terrible roll of the dice for the veteran.

We Are Failing Our Veterans With PTSD: The Life and Death of Sonny Mazon

Kevin Bell | Posted 04.08.2012 | Impact
Kevin Bell

For all of our rhetoric of supporting soldiers with PTSD, there is a dense, bureaucratic labyrinth in between soldiers and the help that they need.

Lessons In Healing From Vietnam War Veterans

Dr. Caroline Cicero | Posted 04.08.2012 | Fifty
Dr. Caroline Cicero

The Vietnam War, however, was not only a defining moment in baby boomers' coming-of-age process. Forty years later, the war is still part of many boomers' psyches as they face older age.

Improve Mental-Health Care for Our Troops

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 01.08.2012 | Politics
Robert David Jaffee

Obama should use the bully pulpit to urge troops and veterans to seek help if they are depressed, suffering from PTSD or suicidal. He should also trumpet legislation to fund more mental-health counselors for the armed forces and for veterans.

What Meditation Did For Me: A War Vet's Story

Leila Levinson | Posted 12.30.2011 | Healthy Living
Leila Levinson

I would like to present WWII veteran Jerry Yellin's story, which much more eloquently than I could describes how transcendental meditation provided the relief from his trauma and the recovery of his spirit.

One Vet's Battle With PTSD And The Military

Cilla McCain | Posted 10.15.2011 | Healthy Living
Cilla McCain

Lampe developed a drinking problem and experienced blackouts brought on by PTSD. Despite this, he was deployed two more times. On one of the latter deployments, his best friend was killed in an intense firefight.

A Musical Take on PTSD

K. Lorrel Manning and Michael Cuomo | Posted 09.19.2011 | Entertainment
K. Lorrel Manning and Michael Cuomo

Based on the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway play and subsequent award-winning short film of the same name, Happy New Year is an entertaining yet hard-hitting look at Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Who Gets Better From Combat Stress (And How)

Belleruth Naparstek | Posted 07.16.2011 | Healthy Living
Belleruth Naparstek

There are several studies claiming a 70-percent improvement rate for returning warriors who are treated for combat stress with various cognitive behavioral therapies and/or prolonged exposure strategies. But this is a misleading number.

The Hidden Danger To Our Veterans And Service Members

Leila Levinson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Leila Levinson

The veterans know on a gut level that the remedy to their intolerable memories and nightmares -- both waking and asleep -- will not come through a pill.

Addiction's Secret Ingredient 'X'

Daniel Goldin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Daniel Goldin

An addict, by systematically falsifying with drugs, the feelings his body reports to his brain, gets worse at solving them. He can operate directly on his emotions by taking more substances.

It Is Possible For A Veteran To Heal From War's Invisible Wounds?

Leila Levinson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Leila Levinson

Those of us who have never gone to war -- and today that means about 90 percent of us -- how able are we to imagine it?

The Importance Of Giving Veterans A Voice

Leila Levinson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Leila Levinson

Civilians have a critical role to pay in helping veterans and their families heal from war. Dedicating virtual and real space to veterans for storytelling would help them break free of their silence.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Ravaging Our Young War Vets

Marc Gopin | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Marc Gopin

His son had come home from Afghanistan a different person. "How was he different?" I asked. "It's hard to say," he responded. "He doesn't hold down any food. If he eats, he vomits everything."

Fort Hood Exit Strategy

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Alison Rose Levy

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.

The Way I See It: Combat Vets and the Problem With Coming Home

Colleen Perry | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Colleen Perry

Three female soldiers from the nation's largest army base have been murdered in the past six months allegedly by spouses or boyfriends that have served time in Iraq.

PTSD: An Iraq War Veteran's Experience

Kim Stolz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Kim Stolz

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is an illness that most people have a surfaced knowledge of, at best, even though its earliest reports date b...

Iraq Soldier With PTSD Discusses Life After War (VIDEO)

ANP | Davin Hutchins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

After returning from two tours of duty in Iraq, Capt. Luis Montalvan is the highest ranking member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Despite post-trau...