Specialist Discusses Effects of PTSD

Here is someone talking about PTSD the way it needs to be talked about. The fact that there is hope to heal needs to be followed by what works toward healing. That begins with understanding what it is. If you are a veteran with PTSD, go to the article and watch the video. Listen to what she is saying because it is the same thing experts I've read over the last 30 years discovered.

PTSD sets of a chain of change including chemicals in the brain. Researchers have shown what PTSD does to the brain by taking scans proving once and for all that PTSD is real.
Another reality is that PTSD does not have to take control over your life. There are things you can do to defeat it by treating everything you are, mind, body and spirit.

Get mental health help. Do things for your body so that your system learns how to calm down again. Yoga and martial arts like Tai Chi, will help get things back to natural balance. Then you need to take care of your spirit/soul. With combat there is a lot of help to find peace.

Remember PTSD cannot be cured unless they invent a magic wand to undo what happened, but you can undo most of the damage.

Specialist discusses effects of post-traumatic stress disorder
GALLATIN COUNTY
NBC Montana
By Jacqueline Gedeon, KTVM Reporter
June 19, 2015

BOZEMAN, Mont. - Post-traumatic stress disorder is an issue that professionals and counselors see in law enforcement officials and first responders.

We spoke with one professional about what PTSD is, where it comes from, and whether symptoms of violence usually come with it.

A Bozeman man is on trial for shooting and killing one man and injuring another. Cody Little's attorney says Little's actions came from being unstable with post-traumatic stress disorder after spending four years in the military.

Carol Staben-Burroughs works with people with a variety of mental health disorders.

"I work with a lot of post-traumatic stress disorder, specifically with law enforcement and other emergency services people," said Staben-Burroughs.

She's a licensed clinical professional counselor. She said people develop PTSD after they experience traumatic incidents like a car wreck, rape or combat.
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