Chiarelli seeks clarity in PTSD treatment?

This is one of the worst ideas that is being pushed.

Chiarelli seeks clarity in PTSD treatment Speaking Thursday at the Seattle convention of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Chiarelli described how his frustrations with the current state of mental-health medicine led to his new role as chief executive of One Mind for Research, a nonprofit with an office in Seattle.

One Mind was founded by former congressman Patrick Kennedy and Garen Staglin, a winemaker, investor and philanthropist whose son was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Chiarelli hopes One Mind can be a catalyst for finding new treatments and join the fight against stigmas that surround mental illness.

Chiarelli already is adamant on one point. He wants post-traumatic-stress disorder to be shortened to post-traumatic stress. Labeling it a disorder, he says, discourages people from seeking help.

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I used to belong to NAMI but when I figured out they were not willing to listen, or for that matter, get ahead of all of this, I stopped supporting them.

Frankly, it has to be understood that changing PTSD to anything other than Post Traumatic Stress Disorder will not help at best, but it could end up hurting more. Stress is something you get over. An injury is something that heals. Both go away. A disorder is a profound change that does not go away and you can't get over it. While you can heal it, can find ways of coping with what remains, it changes you forever. One other thing is, stress is not a lifetime disability any more than an injury is.

I've been around long enough to have seen a lot of things go on that turn out to be all about money. In this case, it very well could be about ending payments to Combat PTSD veterans.