Combat Stress Workshops Planned

Combat Stress Workshops Planned: A Veteran PTSD Caregiver is to Speak Here.
July 18, 2009 -- By Loretta Sword, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.
Jul. 18--Combat soldiers returning from war often seem like strangers to their families. Sadder still, they feel like strangers to themselves.

Those feelings, if not expressed and validated by loved ones or professionals, can lead to severe depression, substance abuse, domestic violence, suicide and even homicide, as illustrated by the recent murder cases against a handful of war veterans stationed at Fort Carson.

From the jungles of Vietnam to military bases in Canada and Africa, Sister Kateri Koverman has spent decades working with veterans who have been diagnosed with PTSD -- post traumatic stress disorder -- and helping military leaders to recognize and offer help to PTSD victims.

Koverman is the founder and director of Them Bones Veteran Community, a treatment and advocacy organization based in Cincinnati with a satellite office in Colorado Springs. She'll be in Pueblo next week to lead two free workshops sponsored by Parkview Medical Center's Behavioral Health Division and Mental Health America of Pueblo. One will be for veterans and their friends and families and the second will be for treatment providers and other professionals who work closely with veterans.
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