VA Butler Healthcare is now offering a monthly PTSD Caregiver Support Group to all caregivers whose Veterans have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
January 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
The numbers are startling. The VA estimates that 107,000veterans are homeless on any given night. Approximately twice that many will experience homelessness in the course of a year’s time.
January 4th, 2012 | Posted in Benefits,Coping,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
The ultimate fire fight is on the battleground of the heart for it is there that we meet our deepest fears and issues of unworthiness.
December 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Editors Picks,Health,PTSD | Read More »
The nation’s defense is handled by less that 1/2% of the population.
December 9th, 2011 | Posted in Benefits,Coping,Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD,Vet News,Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
Time to set the record straight on Vietnam
November 30th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,History,Politics,Vietnam War | Read More »
A growing contingent seen at most Occupy Wall Street solidarity protests across the country are veterans, who know the price they paid for walking the path of war for a false dream ~ and increasingly see themselves as part of the 99%. Remember, War is the lifeblood of the one percent.
November 14th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Editors Picks,Health,PTSD | Read More »
Military suicides have increased since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a study conducted by the Center for a New American Security.
November 4th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD,Veteran Service Organizations,Veterans Affairs | Read More »
This is, without a doubt, the most powerful and rewarding work I have done in over 35 years of practice. Seeing the light go on within combat veterans, who were taught to kill, is an unforgettable experience.
October 24th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Editors Picks,Health,PTSD | Read More »
The VA has the increased challenge of meeting the needs of the veterans returning from OIF and OEF.
October 19th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Editors Picks,Health | Read More »
If combat veterans are responding positively to these once a week eight week action oriented heart centered workshops ~ it’s time for the VA to open the door to alternative healing methodologies which the rest of the country is already acknowledging, supporting and experiencing.
July 5th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
Nations should serve their people, not profiteers, even though Havana announced hard times-forced service cutbacks.
July 5th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health | Read More »
the closer you came to death every day, and there were many ways to observe that act, the likelier a Vet was to be diagnosed with post traumatic stress
June 11th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
This article reviews Australian and overseas studies on the physical health effects of Vietnam service. by Dr. Eileen J. Wilson
June 7th, 2011 | Posted in Agent Orange,Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
149 killed this year in Afghanistan and 24 in Iraq. Almost six months of combat 173 killed. This is day 149 of this year meaning at least 2,682 veterans have taken their own lives so far.
May 29th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Editors Picks,Health,PTSD | Read More »
The Veterans Affairs Department’s Veterans Crisis Line received 14,000 calls in April, the highest monthly volume ever recorded for the four-year-old suicide prevention program.
May 25th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
I have demonstrated that only after the heart is opened can true self healing occur for only then does the client (veterans or otherwise) truly want to heal. Using the premise that what is deepest within us is love ( not anger ) and utilizing an action oriented approach to face and go through their fears ~ my clients, including veterans, soon discover that beneath their pain, anger and shame is not only love and joy but most importantly their true authentic self.
March 30th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
They had never met me but they had been told about me, by their adjustment counselor Sal, and were prepared for an eight week commitment to face their fears and open their hearts in the process. They knew I was a licensed psychotherapist but also a former active duty Naval aviator ~ and that made a big difference in trusting me as their coach for this journey to open their closed hearts and finally come home from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
March 13th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
The first meeting of the Healing The Wounded Heart Veterans Workshop #4 was held on January 3, 2011 at 11 AM in Yountville, California . They had never met me but they had been told about me, by their adjustment counselor Sal, and were prepared for an eight week commitment to face their fears and open their hearts in the process. They knew I was a former active duty Naval aviator and that made a big difference.
March 7th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
Here is a chance for veterans to be in a controlled study with a highly respected physician and researcher. By the way this is one of the doctors that helped contribute their knowledge and be interviewed for the new book by Arnold Mann that will be available to be ordered next week. The book: THEY”RE POISONING US : From The Gulf War To The Gulf of Mexico, AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT again is expected to be available to order next week, VT will keep you informed on further developments.We encourage veterans to participate and help yourselves and your fellow veteran by doing so. We in the veteran community are advocating for each of you to get diagnostic and treatment trials that are good to you. You have to do your part and follow up and be a participant. Sometimes we also need controls that could be friends, family members, other veterans that are not ill and we encourage you to help also to find others that can serve as controls.
This is the second study in a couple of months that are new researchers that have asked us to get the word out.
Treatment trial for gulf war illness.
February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health,PTSD | Read More »
The suicide rate among young female U.S. military veterans is nearly three times higher than among civilian women, a new study has found. Researchers analyzed data on 5,948 female suicides in 16 states between 2004 and 2007. In the 18-to-34 age group, there were 56 suicides among 418,132 veterans and 1,461 suicides among 33,257,362 nonveterans. [...]
February 14th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
I thought getting the clergy involved in helping veterans would be easy…. By Chaplain Kathie STAFF WRITER Living in Florida, knowing this state has over a million veterans and at least one church on every major street, I thought getting the clergy involved in helping veterans would be easy. I was totally wrong. A couple [...]
February 12th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,PTSD | Read More »
Both survived an IED blast, three years apart, and struggle with aftermath MOORPARK, Calif. — The crisply ironed uniforms of the father and son hang side by side in what they have dubbed the “Marine Corps closet,” a dark space filled with vestiges of their tours of duty. Two Purple Hearts. A backpack full of [...]
February 7th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health | Read More »
…they survive combat but cannot survive back home By Chaplain Kathie STAFF WRITER The reports have come out for years. They survive combat but cannot survive back home. We read a lot about suicides when they are discovered by family members hanging at home, lifeless from a bullet wound shot by their own hand and [...]
February 7th, 2011 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
Waivers do not match the number of discharges so there is a clear problem still going on in the military. While “personality disorder” discharges dropped, it looks like they are still trying to get rid of “problems” instead of taking care of them.
December 11th, 2010 | Posted in Coping,Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
Dave Sharpe had trouble leaving his Yorktown, Va., home until Cheyenne helped ease the former airman’s anxiety. Gillian Laub for TIME In my work with veterans with PTSD, both individually and group, I have proven that a heart centered approach is the missing link in their self healing process. In that regard, pets are often [...]
December 8th, 2010 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
I am on a road trip back home to where I spent most of my life. This trip back home was to drive my daughter back so that she can start a new job and her new life as an adult on her own. She is not alone and will be back with what is left of my family, which got me thinking about how much can change in a year.
December 5th, 2010 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
New Gulf War Illness Research funded from 2010 appropriated/authorized funds. Review of four studies funded in Canada, Wisconsin, California, and Colorado.
November 30th, 2010 | Posted in Coping,Gulf War Illness (GWI),Health | Read More »
When we read about all the advances being made, the programs the DOD has come up with to “help” the troops recover, there is always something that does not add up because at the same time we read about what they are doing, somewhere hidden from our eyes, problems lurk in the darkness like a bad horror movie.
November 28th, 2010 | Posted in Coping,Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
Staff Sgt. David Senft tried to commit suicide twice but he was redeployed anyway. Now he is gone and the Army is investigating his death. Maybe a good place to start is with the person who decided he should go back to combat no matter what was going on with him? Why they keep doing [...]
November 27th, 2010 | Posted in Coping,Health,PTSD | Read More »
An “expert” just came out and set us back 40 years on PTSD. He thinks there is no effective treatment and that time will take over. In other words, “get over it” leaving veterans to think there is no hope again. Here we have a major line of BS from an “expert” on PTSD.
November 26th, 2010 | Posted in Coping,Health,Medical Disability Benefits,PTSD | Read More »
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