Yale University PTSD Study Proves I'm Right!

After all these years, I'm finally proven right when it comes to heroes being born the way they are. It didn't take blood tests or a university to come to the conclusion I made years ago. All it took was listening to them.
Watch my videos and know what I've been saying in case you have not been an avid reader of this blog. There are over 5,000 posts on this blog and over 10,000 on my older blog. I do not have a degree. I am not a psychiatrist, psychologists or professor but I would match what I've learned about veterans over the last 26 years against any of them simply because to me, this is all very personal.
The only thing Deane Aikins should have done was take a look at their soul. Had this been done, what would have been discovered is that the basis of their core from birth is that the heroes developing PTSD are all sensitive to other people's pain. Sensitivity and concern for other people has been behind most of what they end up doing in life. It takes a great deal of courage to enter into the military, police departments, fire departments and National Guards but it also takes a concern for other people. The more deeply they care, the more deeply they are wounded by what they go thru in order to be of service. This is not a guess. It's a fact. Just as science has now proven that heroes are born that way, one day they will also take into account what makes these people so uniquely qualified to risk their lives also uniquely wounds them.

Natural born heroes?
Ian Sample, Chicago
guardian.co.uk,
Monday 16 February 2009 12.59 GMT
People who stay cool in a crisis may be natural born heroes, according to psychiatrists investigating how soldiers behave in stressful situations.

Blood tests on war veterans showed that a minority were almost oblivious to stress and were able to think clearly in spite of the dangerous situations they found themselves in.

The research has led to a test that can predict which people will respond well in a stressful situation and those who are more likely to panic.

Deane Aikins, a psychiatrist at Yale University, said the remarkable composure of US Airways Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who made an emergency landing on the Hudson river last month, showed how well some people can cope with extremely stressful situations. The pilot's actions led to headlines referring to "grace under pressure" – Hemingway's description of heroism.

"I think some people are born with it," Aikins said. "We would all be ready to scream in our chairs, but there are certain individuals who just don't get as stressed."

In a study, Aikins took blood samples from soldiers before and after they took part in survival training exercises designed to test their skills at evading capture and enduring interrogation. In the majority of men, levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, increased sharply during the exercise.

But Aikins found a few men whose stress levels hardly changed during the exercise. They performed best because they were able to stay calm, he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago yesterday. click link for more