Ft. Hood is site of stress experiment

Sounds great. Sounds like what I've been "preaching" and screaming about for years. Still you know the saying "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't." I really hope I'm wrong.

The problem is not that taking care of the mind-body and spirit is wrong, because it is the best way to treat PTSD. Taking care of the whole person including their family has shown what can be accomplished with treating PTSD. The problem is if they go about it in the wrong way. Without fully understanding what PTSD is and does, they can do more harm than good.

There are many people working on PTSD in the military and they know a lot more than the "experts" coming up with some of these programs. It would be great if the planners would talk to them and get their input since they not only treat the soldiers, they live near them. Some even have PTSD in their own families with aging Vietnam veteran parents. What some experts lack is life knowledge and this has been made clear when the military has come out with programs in the past trying make the troops more "resilient" as if they can prevent PTSD instead of healing PTSD.

This program leaves a lot of questions just as the "experts" should have been addressing in the past. With the increase of suicides as well as attempted suicides, warning bells should have been heard loud and clear to make them understand for the most part, they are going about addressing PTSD the wrong way.

Again, I really hope I'm wrong but I've been hoping I've been wrong for a very long time only to sadly proven right.

Ft. Hood is site of stress experiment
Training soldiers how to deal with stress
Updated: Monday, 09 Nov 2009, 9:31 AM EST
Published : Monday, 09 Nov 2009, 6:49 AM EST

Kate Weidaw
FORT HOOD, Texas (KXAN) - The man accused in the deadly shooting at Fort Hood, Major Hasan treated soldiers dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Army was also experimenting with a new program at Fort Hood to try and help soldiers learn new coping skills before they were deployed.

In September, the Army launched what they called a Resiliency Campus at Fort Hood as an experiment to see if giving soldiers skills to deal with post-traumatic stress before leaving would help them once they come back home.

Military leaders acknowledge there are serious psychiatric problems in their midst.

According to the Army, the suicide rate among soldiers in Iraq is five times that seen in the Persian Gulf War and 11 percent higher than during Vietnam.

These resiliency camps train soldiers, family members and civilians on post ways to increase their fitness in mind, body and spirit.
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Ft. Hood is site of stress experiment