Comments on: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder — PTSD

By: JLM

JLM — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 17:42:00 +0000

In reply to Dan Love.

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Good read. Thank you, Dan.

BRC
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By: Dan Love

Dan Love — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 16:49:00 +0000

Robert Seligman at Penn has done some very important work here. One idea he talks about is that responses to trauma are normally distributed – so can you offer training (e.g. mental exercises) that helps shift the curve to the right.

I imagine it’s likely more complex, but it’s one of the most actionable approaches I’ve seen.

https://hbr.org/2011/03/post-traumatic-growth-and-buil

By: JLM

JLM — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:22:00 +0000

In reply to Steven Schalock.

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Thanks. Good read. We ate in it together and your thoughtfulness counts. A lot.

BRC
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By: Steven Schalock

Steven Schalock — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 06:02:00 +0000

Lots of good help here: http://www.ptsdspirituality.com/

PTSD is not just for soldiers… The “T” is for Trauma – any violence. Think Cops, Fire, Ambulance, Sexual.
Don’t forget them either. It sucks for all.

I think one of the biggest issues is:
trigger…
involuntary response…
especially involuntary hormonal (fight or flight) dump, and resultant aftermath.
involuntary response is recgonized as “socially inappropriate” ( but probably was your combat training )
guilt…
(social damage mitigation?) (if not successful, more guilt, more damage – ohshit – allmyfault)

Time has to pass for your system to clear the adrenalin, etc., out – sometimes overnight.

Good article. If you are there… hang in there Sis/Bro. Pray.
-steve-

By: sigmaalgebra

sigmaalgebra — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 02:10:00 +0000

PTSD is clearly just awful stuff, and what you wrote looks like expert commentary and advice and no doubt from a little useful up to life saving.

Good. But PTSD, one of the worst challenges in life, even it is the worst, is not the only one. That said, it has to be obvious that similarly good expert commentary and advice should be darned useful for the rest of life challenges on the top 20 list.

By: pointsnfigures

pointsnfigures — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:45:00 +0000

Met several that have had it. Warrior Bonfire Project out of Mississippi does a lot for them and if you can support them with $$ do so.

Jerry Yellin (RIP) flew the last fighter mission of WW2. I was lucky enough to meet him a few times. He said that doing Transcendental Meditation helped him with PTSD. Walt Ehlers (RIP and MOH recipient) told me talking about it helped. A guy at the NationalWW2Museum.org was a pathfinder in Normandy. He had nightmares his whole life until he started volunteering daily at the museum. He passed away peacefully last year.

By: Wes Ramsay

Wes Ramsay — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:28:00 +0000

Thanks for these sane words. Looking back at my father and his friends, all of whom endured the Marianas campaign in WWII, I see the symptoms. Especially the guilt at having survived. One gent was wounded multiple times, and lived, only to see his older son killed in Vietnam. He never recovered from that final blow. I think often of them all, good men who did their best to soldier on the rest of their lives.

By: SFG

SFG — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:59:00 +0000

In reply to sigmaalgebra. What's it called when a thin skinned liberal can't accept the fact that their candidate lost? And whines hysterically for years while unable to have convos with folks who are ok with the President? I wonder how Oprah would handle NK?

By: sigmaalgebra

sigmaalgebra — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 23:40:00 +0000

I don’t have that, never had that, and don’t believe I know anyone who has that. But, clearly it’s awful stuff.

The soldier was in a war. It wasn’t his fault there was a war.

The post appears to be huge, profound insight into a special and serious part of the human condition and the human mind.

By: JLM

JLM — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 17:41:00 +0000

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PTSD is real. How do you cope with it?

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/

Here’s how.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofhebigredcar.com

#ptsd