The Burden of PTSD: An Ongoing Conversation

Matthew wrote a great piece and now it seems he's quoting me. I am honored.

The Burden of PTSD: An Ongoing Conversation
Posted by: Matthew Newton on April 6, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Perhaps you’ve heard: PTSD among veterans returning from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is a huge problem and we might not have the resources to deal with its ramifications. GOOD recently ran my feature on the subject, “The Memory War,” and since then, I’ve had many conversations on the topic—ranging from readers’ personal experiences, to sprawling discussions on the multifacted challenges facing service members suffering from PTSD. One such discussion, however, really forced me to take a step back.

In an email exchange with Kathie Costos DiCesare, a Senior IFOC Chaplain, she expresses a view of the Army’s Battlemind training program that I’d never heard, or even considered. For the unfamiliar, Battlemind is a training program used to try to counter the effects of war on armed forces. It’s been heavily criticized as inadequate. DiCesare takes that criticism one step further.
go here for more
http://www.good.is/post/the-burden-of-ptsd-an-ongoing-conversation/

He ended up putting a very complicated issue into something easier to understand that does not get talked about nearly enough. Please click the link to finish reading it.