There are so many PTSD videos out there now that it is really hard to pick a couple out to highlight. Here are two of them. One is about how Tom Skerritt is going to be teaching a writing class to veterans to help them heal by writing what they can't talk about. The other is about meditation from David Lynch Foundation.
Both of them are pretty good but as with anything else, they do not work for everyone. If what you need is still not happening for you, keep looking for what works for you. Just try to be careful about what you find online. I just went through about 5 pages of YouTube videos and only found two that were worth posting on.
Tom Skerritt on Teaching Storytelling to PTSD Veterans from Afghanistan
Women Veterans Combat PTSD with Transcendental Meditation
Sunday, August 5, 2012
This is what they used to do to soldiers with PTSD
Researchers look to WWI soldiers for clues about traumatic brain injuries
By JAY PRICE
The News and Observer
Published: August 5, 2012
DURHAM — Second Lt. Eric Poole was sharp enough to earn a string of promotions and make that rare leap from enlisted man to officer, but his rise through the British Army ranks ended when his superiors ordered him shot.
Pvt. William Alfred Moon was, said a command sergeant major who knew him for two years, “one of the best of soldiers.” They executed him, too.
Pvt. Arthur Wild, as well, had been a solid soldier, one of his officers testified. Wild’s death by firing squad “was instantaneous” wrote the witnessing medical officer.
The trio fought in the French trenches of World War I in conditions almost unimaginably horrific, even by the terrible standards of war. All three were court-martialed for desertion.
They and other executed British soldiers were likely the innocent victims of a scourge that still stalks battlefields nearly a century later: blast-induced traumatic brain injury.
That’s according to the findings of an unusual, multidisciplinary team of Duke University researchers. They include a psychiatrist who served in Afghanistan, a psychologist, a biomedical engineer, and an engineer with a doctorate who is an expert in explaining the precise mechanics of explosions and other forces that can injure humans.
By JAY PRICE
The News and Observer
Published: August 5, 2012
DURHAM — Second Lt. Eric Poole was sharp enough to earn a string of promotions and make that rare leap from enlisted man to officer, but his rise through the British Army ranks ended when his superiors ordered him shot.
Pvt. William Alfred Moon was, said a command sergeant major who knew him for two years, “one of the best of soldiers.” They executed him, too.
Pvt. Arthur Wild, as well, had been a solid soldier, one of his officers testified. Wild’s death by firing squad “was instantaneous” wrote the witnessing medical officer.
The trio fought in the French trenches of World War I in conditions almost unimaginably horrific, even by the terrible standards of war. All three were court-martialed for desertion.
They and other executed British soldiers were likely the innocent victims of a scourge that still stalks battlefields nearly a century later: blast-induced traumatic brain injury.
That’s according to the findings of an unusual, multidisciplinary team of Duke University researchers. They include a psychiatrist who served in Afghanistan, a psychologist, a biomedical engineer, and an engineer with a doctorate who is an expert in explaining the precise mechanics of explosions and other forces that can injure humans.
Taking another look
The kind of information the team needs, so many years later, is scarce. What researchers needed in each case was two things: something that offered reasonable clues about the men’s mental health before the trauma, and a report with at least some detail about his exposure to the effects of a blast.
They found it in enough cases to present the results formally at the neurotrauma meeting.
Some of the men, perhaps 10 percent to 15 percent, had poor excuses for deserting or their other behavior. In many of the other cases, there wasn’t enough information in the records to tell much.
But in the cases of about 10 percent of those executed, there appears to be evidence of neurotrauma, said Cameron R. “Dale” Bass, an associate research professor with Duke’s Department of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Injury and Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory.
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Veterans’ risk of developing ALS may be higher
Veterans’ risk of developing ALS may be higher
By Robin Erb
The (Detroit) Free Press
Posted : Sunday Aug 5, 2012
A small number of studies have suggested military veterans may be at a higher risk for developing ALS.
It’s enough evidence that, in 2008, the Department of Veterans Affairs began setting aside benefits specifically for anyone who had been in the service and developed the disease.
Although benefits vary depending on service time and other factors, ALS was categorized as a “presumptively compensable illness.” In other words, veterans diagnosed with ALS are eligible for monthly disability pay and funds to modify their homes, vehicles to transport them, insurance for dependents and survivors’ benefits.
From January 2003 to September 2011, Veterans Affairs — prompted by anecdotal reports of young veterans returning from the Persian Gulf War and developing ALS — collected information and even blood samples from willing veterans with ALS, said Dr. Eugene Oddone, who ran the registry and is now director of the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the VA Medical Center in Durham, N.C.
The goal was to determine whether ALS really was more prevalent among veterans and, if so, among which veterans and why. The results were mixed.
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By Robin Erb
The (Detroit) Free Press
Posted : Sunday Aug 5, 2012
A small number of studies have suggested military veterans may be at a higher risk for developing ALS.
It’s enough evidence that, in 2008, the Department of Veterans Affairs began setting aside benefits specifically for anyone who had been in the service and developed the disease.
Although benefits vary depending on service time and other factors, ALS was categorized as a “presumptively compensable illness.” In other words, veterans diagnosed with ALS are eligible for monthly disability pay and funds to modify their homes, vehicles to transport them, insurance for dependents and survivors’ benefits.
From January 2003 to September 2011, Veterans Affairs — prompted by anecdotal reports of young veterans returning from the Persian Gulf War and developing ALS — collected information and even blood samples from willing veterans with ALS, said Dr. Eugene Oddone, who ran the registry and is now director of the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the VA Medical Center in Durham, N.C.
The goal was to determine whether ALS really was more prevalent among veterans and, if so, among which veterans and why. The results were mixed.
read more here
Vietnam Veteran Karl Marlantes on What It's Like to Go to War
Bill Moyers: Veteran Karl Marlantes on What It's Like to Go to War
Wednesday, 01 August 2012
By Bill Moyers, Moyers and Company
Interview and Video
Bill talks to Karl Marlantes - a highly-decorated Vietnam veteran, Rhodes Scholar, author, and PTSD survivor - about what we on the insulated outside need to understand about the minds and hearts of our modern warriors. Marlantes shares with Bill intimate stories about how his battlefield experiences both shaped and nearly destroyed him, even after returning to civilian life.
“’Thou shalt not kill’ is a tenet you just do not violate, and so all your young life, that’s drilled into your head. And then suddenly, you’re 18 or 19 and they’re saying, ‘Go get ‘em and kill for your country.’ And then you come back and it’s like, ‘Well, thou shalt not kill’ again. Believe me, that’s a difficult thing to deal with,” Marlantes tells Bill. “You take a young man and put him in the role of God, where he is asked to take a life - that’s something no 19-year-old is able to handle.”
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Wednesday, 01 August 2012
By Bill Moyers, Moyers and Company
Interview and Video
Bill talks to Karl Marlantes - a highly-decorated Vietnam veteran, Rhodes Scholar, author, and PTSD survivor - about what we on the insulated outside need to understand about the minds and hearts of our modern warriors. Marlantes shares with Bill intimate stories about how his battlefield experiences both shaped and nearly destroyed him, even after returning to civilian life.
Vietnam veteran and author Karl Marlantes shares how his battlefield experiences both shaped and nearly destroyed him. (Photo: Moyers and Company)
“’Thou shalt not kill’ is a tenet you just do not violate, and so all your young life, that’s drilled into your head. And then suddenly, you’re 18 or 19 and they’re saying, ‘Go get ‘em and kill for your country.’ And then you come back and it’s like, ‘Well, thou shalt not kill’ again. Believe me, that’s a difficult thing to deal with,” Marlantes tells Bill. “You take a young man and put him in the role of God, where he is asked to take a life - that’s something no 19-year-old is able to handle.”
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Ford Donations Provide Critical Transportation Services to Injured Veterans
Ford Donations Provide Critical Transportation Services to Injured Veterans
Scholarships also granted to dedicated young volunteers
LAS VEGAS (August 3, 2012) —Ford Motor Company will donate $200,000 to purchase eight new vehicles for the DAV Transportation Network and $45,000 to DAV’s youth volunteer scholarship program at DAV’s 91st National Convention at the Bally’s Hotel in Las Vegas.
“For 90 years, Ford has helped DAV build better lives for America’s injured or ill veterans and their families,” said DAV National Commander Donald L. Samuels.
Volunteer drivers use the vehicles to take sick and disabled veterans to VA medical centers. Since 1996, Ford has donated more than $3.4 million for the purchase of 164 vans for the DAV Transportation Network.
“Ford is proud of our partnership with DAV which spans 90 years,” said Jim Vella, President, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services. “We are pleased to lend our support so that these deserving veterans can get the transportation they need to receive critical services.”
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Scholarships also granted to dedicated young volunteers
LAS VEGAS (August 3, 2012) —Ford Motor Company will donate $200,000 to purchase eight new vehicles for the DAV Transportation Network and $45,000 to DAV’s youth volunteer scholarship program at DAV’s 91st National Convention at the Bally’s Hotel in Las Vegas.
“For 90 years, Ford has helped DAV build better lives for America’s injured or ill veterans and their families,” said DAV National Commander Donald L. Samuels.
Volunteer drivers use the vehicles to take sick and disabled veterans to VA medical centers. Since 1996, Ford has donated more than $3.4 million for the purchase of 164 vans for the DAV Transportation Network.
“Ford is proud of our partnership with DAV which spans 90 years,” said Jim Vella, President, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services. “We are pleased to lend our support so that these deserving veterans can get the transportation they need to receive critical services.”
read more here
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