Comments on: More on PTSD - New Trauma Court Opening

By: Chaplain Campbell

Chaplain Campbell — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:25:08 +0000

Each person’s treatment and experience is unique. What may help one person may not work for someone else. It is very important to work with medical professionals who have training and experience dealing with PTSD so that the best plan for treatment can be developed.

By: Chaplain Campbell

Chaplain Campbell — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:23:26 +0000

Thank you for sharing these ideas. It makes sense that every bit of help a stressed family receives will help. Even these seemingly simple ways to assist will let them know they are not facing their struggles alone.

By: Chaplain Campbell

Chaplain Campbell — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:21:37 +0000

Thank you for sharing this sad, personal story. Hopefully, the atmosphere is changing so that servicemembers don’t feel as reluctant to seek the help they need.

By: Pamela Reynolds

Pamela Reynolds — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:12:19 +0000

My heart goes out to the Delgado family. My ex-husband suffered terribly when he came home from Vietnam. I remember telling the VA in Winston Salem, North Carolina that there was something very wrong with my husband and they politely told me I was crazy. Only a few years later we divorced, because my children and I could not take anymore and he committed suicide 2 years after that. He never got to see our children grow up, marry and my grandchildren have never known their grandfather. Maybe if some one had listened to me many years before and the military had acknowledged it he would be alive today.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:40:13 +0000

Doctors who give anti-anxiety drugs need to be on trial for criminal negligence, at the very least. THESE DRUGS DO MORE DAMAGE TO THE BRAIN THAN HELP!

By: Rob Breisch

Rob Breisch — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:31:30 +0000

PTSD has no cure nor treatment.
I suffered from limited exposure to Viet Nam vets with vivid stories and film of their tours of duty
while stationed in West Germany in 1973.My unit was the Charlie battery 6th & 14th field artillery
and had spent several tours in Vietnam. As a specialist in human relations-I worked with many of the walking dead
including combat journalists who often shared the live 16mm films of combat missions or attacks on their hill.
In Germany I also experienced many traumas at weapons facilities and other bases that held
some of the armys secrets. In a few civilian firefights at a NATO facility and I can tell you that PTSD-which was called battle fatigue syndrome lasts for decades…the only real relief I got was from using marijuana to mask the fears and nightmares-and allow me to relax and forget.
I feel for all these soldiers who are in harms way-and I am pissed off at the last administration for abandoning our troops-by all the corruption in the war in Iraq-and by slashing the VA budgets.
After exposure to combat you are never the same!

By: Jocelyn Green

Jocelyn Green — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:43:47 +0000

This is such a complex issue, but one thing I have learned from all the PTSD experts I’ve interviewed for my own articles on the subject is this: any help to the family helps the PTSD sufferer. Lisa Jaycox, senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, says that the more stress a family is under, the harder it is to recover from PTSD. So even if I think I can’t possibly “cure” or “fix” the underlying issue, if I can help the family by mowing the lawn for them or bringing some meals, by offering to watch the kids for a while or by cleaning their house, that all serves to help relieve pressure that someone with PTSD just may not be equipped to handle. I would also encourage the veteran to get plugged in with other vets dealing with similar issues (preferably with a leader trained to really help), because so many times veterans don’t want to share their traumatic experiences with loved ones because they want to keep their minds innocent of the horrors of war.

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