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Suicide Prevention Is Attainable

Suicide Prevention Is Attainable

This is a topic that is near and dear to me. Reading these reports is distressing that we still have Soldiers out there that feel like this is the solution to their problems. Believe me, it’s [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Infinite Progress

Infinite Progress

I met with my social worker today for a counseling session and to give him a sense of where I am. We came to a few conclusions that I want to share. He helped me understand [...]

A Little Perspective Is In Order

A Little Perspective Is In Order

[UPDATE 29 Sep 11: I've cut off comments to this post. I've given it enough time for everyone to respond and I'm moving on. I will not allow this to become a never-ending issue. Thank you [...]

171,423 deployed Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans diagnosed with PTSD

According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is defined as a condition resulting from exposure to direct or indirect threat of death, serious injury or a physical threat” (VA, 2010, p.1).The [...]

When Depression Takes Over – Take Your Life Back, Don’t Take Your Life (Part III)

It’s been a rough year for Fort Hood. According to Army officials, there have been 14 suicides at Fort Hood and officials are scrambling to make sense of it. That is a statistic I don’t want [...]

When Depression Takes Over (Part II)

A few words of clarity before I continue. Regardless of what my mind tells me, I LOVE being a Soldier. I love serving my country and wearing this uniform. Part of my depression – aside from [...]

When Depression Takes Over

I think I’ve been avoiding admitting that I have depression for a long time. Last year, I decided that instead of hiding, I needed to do something about it. I probably couldn’t have picked a worse [...]

Medicated Into Oblivion

This week’s Army Times paper had a story titled “Medicating the Military” by Brendan McGarry. It was kind of a sobering piece about the toll eight years of war has taken on our troops. One of [...]

Dealing and Coping (Part II)

The key to dealing and coping with PTSD is to confront. Too often, we tend to shut ourselves down and refuse to talk about what eats at us inside. Even with my counselor, it took a [...]

Coping With The Stigma

My recent battles with local school officials have highlighted the ignorance of American Society with respect to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). When other families and I got upset about an untimely policy decision and an [...]

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 [...]