One Marine's plan to fight the ravages of war

Vetville: One Marine's plan to fight the ravages of war
By Mike Sager • Mon, Jul 11th, 2011

Recently I spent some time in Vetville.

It’s a real place and not a real place at the same time, as you’ll see if you keep reading. Right now, it’s sort of a walking around daydream. From the look of things, it’s getting more solid every day.

Maybe you can help. I think they’ve stumbled upon something very important in the unspoiled hills of north central Tennessee, the home of the original Overmountain men, the first wave of storied Tennessee Volunteers.

Vetville is the unofficial name for a farm is owned by a man named Alan Beaty. His great-great-great-great grandfather walked hundreds of miles to North Carolina in 1780 to lend his long rifle to the Battle of Kings Mountain, a pivotal victory in the Revolutionary War.

Through successive generations, the Beatys have continued to serve. Alan’s father, Keith, was a Marine; he endured some of the thickest fighting in Vietnam. Alan himself did three different stints in Iraq and Afghanistan, one as a Marine, two as a U.S. government-employed mercenary.
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Don’t Tell Someone With PTSD To “Get Over It”
By RICHARD ZWOLINSKI, LMHC, CASAC

Neuroscientistific research shows that our memory is strongest and lasts the longest when our emotions are heightened. This helps explain why we might remember every nuance of our wedding day or our valedictory speech in college.

It also holds true for our memories of traumatic events such as abuse or even one-time events such as severe accidents.

Trauma and abuse seem etched in people’s memories, while “important” information, such as remembering the Capitols of the states, is more easily forgotten. Often, treatment techniques used in the treatment of PTSD (and other disorders such as depression and anxiety which are sometimes related to painful memories), assume that traumatic memories are the hardest to let go of.

Now, new research seems to show that if you really want to forget a memory—you might be able to. Researcher Gerd Waldhauser from Lund University in Sweden says that we can learn to control our memory in the same way as we can control our motor impulses.

EEG measures of the brain show that the same parts of the brain are activated when we stop our motor impulses as when we suppress a memory. Waldhauser believes that just as we can practice restraining motor impulses, we can also actively train ourselves to repress memories and maybe even forget painful or traumatic events.
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Do not tell someone with PTSD get over it