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Army Review of PTSD Will Reinforce Combat Veterans Not to Seek Help

This article seems to say they are passing out PTSD diagnosis to anyone who walks by and sneezes. It is not easy to get a PTSD diagnosis, that is the truth. When this same issue was [...]

A Ruse Indeed: Wanna Be Therapists

Comment from a guy who originally placed on his Facebook education and work page that he worked for me at my blog. I asked him to remove it, he apologized and gave me a huge line, [...]

The Progressive International Motorcycle Show

The Progressive International Motorcycle Show

We’re proud to announce that Military, Police, and Fire Men and Women will get free admission to this weekend’s Progressive International Motorcycle Show in NYC if they arrive in uniform! The Progressive International Motorcycle Show is [...]

Combat PTSD: A Psycho-Social and Spiritual Wound

Combat PTSD: A Psycho-Social and Spiritual Wound

America, I gave you my soul in 1991. I didn’t know it then that I would receive a psycho-social and spiritual wound that not even I could see. Of late we have heard much on the common symptoms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or [...]

Combat PTSD Blogger on ASP

Hello ASP readers, I am sure you have heard the latest on CJ’s blogging saga. I am not here to talk about that, we all know that he will address it when he can. For those [...]

Absence of Presence and Intimacy

You may or may not know that I am serving an internship in a legal setting. I have been struggling with the opening up and closing down myself along with keeping this separate from my interviews [...]

Hey, By the Way I Ran into the Dope Man Today

Yesterday I was running some errands to get ready to spend the weekend with my girlfriend. After I had picked up a prescription from Wal-Mart I was sitting in my car when a guy walks up [...]

Reconciling our Combat Past with our Present Presense

Today I recieved an email from a reader who had some questions. She has a Iraqi veteran friend who had returned in 2007 from back to back delpoyments. Just recently he had opened up and sent [...]

Review: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in the Treatment of War Veterans

Silver, Rogers and Russell (2008) outline EMDR as an “eight-phase therapeutic approach” based on the Adaptive Information-Processing (AIP) model to treat combat veterans. The foundation of EMDR resides in the clients “neurologically based information processing” (Silver, [...]

To Buckle Under the Burden

A friend of mine sent this message to me on facebook. It expounds an enlightenment on how our veterans fare from war and healing. I’m setting up at VA last night and fixing to head back [...]

Reflections of Self: Bridging Differences with Similarities Between Clients and Myself

In the treatment of combat related trauma, the latest research reveals that a union of therapist and client can and will eventually bring about a healing process. Whereby upon establishing trust in the clinician, the combat [...]

Reflections of Self: Who I Am

For the reader who has just tuned in or is unfamiliar with my writings, I am a combat veteran with PTSD and attending college to become a therapist specializing in combat  PTSD. Beginning today I will [...]

Reflections of Self: Self-Care, Healing the Healer

I have been battling my demons and have an intimate understanding of an overwhelmed and heavily burden soul. I have to constantly remind myself take my time, no hurry here in the journey of healing. I [...]

Badges of Honor and Integrity

This post is a comment on a question from a post on April 26, 2009 at PTSD, A Soldier’s Perspective, if you want to see the comment click here, if not read on. I wear my memorabilia [...]

More Stupid Crap to Say to a Combat Veteran

I picked up a my new Army Veteran hat that I just bought yesterday and hung it up on top of my Desert Storm hat. My desert storm hat has a Combat Infantry Badge (CIB) pin [...]