Posts Tagged ‘COMBAT’
22
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, C-PTSD, COMBAT, COMBAT PTSD, MILITARY, PTSD. 1 Comment
Jacek Yerka
Women may be at greater risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder than men because of what researchers call their “heightened fear response.”
California scientists examined individuals with PTSD symptoms and found that the women in the study developed a stronger fear response than the men during so-called “conditioning tasks.” Then – once conditioned to respond fearfully – the women were more likely to have stronger responses to fear-inducing situations and actions.
University of California at San Francisco researchers, affiliated with the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and its Northern California Institute for Research and Education, suggest this might reflect a pre-existing vulnerability, or might develop in a gender-dependent way as PTSD manifests itself.
“Differences in the learning of fear may be one mechanism that may be important in the development of PTSD,” said Sabra Inslicht, a UCSF assistant professor of psychiatry and the lead author of a study into the topic published in the Oct. 26 online edition of the Journal of Psychiatric Research.
Dr. Inslicht continued:
The preliminary findings of our experiment suggest that women with PTSD had greater fear-conditioning responses than did men with PTSD. This suggests that there may be differences in how men and women learn to fear. That may be one reason that the rates of PTSD are higher in women compared to men.
The research continues. Read more: http://nation.time.com/2012/11/21/are-female-troops-more-likely-to-get-ptsd/#ixzz2Cy0p2xLi
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Does that mean women are more susceptible to cortisol dumps. We become more sensitive with each cortisol release and that path becomes a highway to hell. Stop thinking and practice mindfulness.
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Stop engaging thought and emotion or avoiding all together. be here to experience unhappy without bias and live fully.
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22
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ACTION, C-PTSD, COMBAT, DISASSOCIATION, MINDFULNESS, PTSD. Leave a Comment
Time can give power to our trauma. Everyday we avoid and engage the storyline, we go deeper into the shadow world of trauma thought.
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Now as we see another Holiday arrive, take stock and see the condition of your life and PTSD. What has transpired the last six months? Are you better?
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Are you worse? Do you keep a journal so the ego has a harder time distorting reality?
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It is time to take action and heal. take any small action but take action.
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Give thanks that we have a disorder than can be healed and life can be better. PTSD is a disorder of thoughts and memories which have absolutely no power in this moment.
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PTSD has a weakness we can exploit. PTSD does not play defense and withers if we stay present. Starve trauma and be here and now, to experience all of life.
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21
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, C-PTSD, COMBAT, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD. 3 Comments
PsychCentral:
“Traumatic experiences in childhood — not combat — may predict which soldiers develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to new research.
Most studies on PTSD in soldiers following service in war zones do not include measures of PTSD symptoms prior to deployment and thus suffer from a baseline problem,” said psychological scientist Dorthe Berntsen, Ph.D., of Aarhus University in Denmark, who worked with a team of Danish and American researchers on the study.
“Only a few studies have examined pre- to post-deployment changes in PTSD symptoms, and most only use a single before-and-after measure.
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“We were surprised that stressful experiences during childhood seemed to play such a central role in discriminating the resilient versus non-resilient groups,” said Berntsen. “These results should make psychologists question prevailing assumptions about PTSD and its development.”
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My thoughts:
There is a cortisol test now. Tests cortisol levels upon waking and a hour hour later. exults show if a persons nervous system is more vulnerable to exposure to trauma. We could screen those with traumatic childhoods or past traumas into support roles, greatly decreasing PTSD with a almost no cost solution
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I can not believe we are just studying this. ones it not seem evident those with trauma would be more vulnerable. Who needs to do a study to realize this.
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Common sense seems as scarce as plutonium around PTSD. We can teach them to kill; Next we may someday teach them how to get their sanity and lives back. Where are the Mash units for our mentally wounded soldiers. need to see a broken bone or blood to recognize the seriousness of this. on average one soldier has committed suicide a day this year.
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18
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ACTION, ANALOGY, C-PTSD, COMBAT, HEALING, Loss, RECOVERY, TOOLS, UNDERSTANDING. 3 Comments
Dan Heller
Loss, like time is a man-made concept that confuses the mind into believing them real. We wither and die, so creating delusional loss brings misery.
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Let us address the concept of loss related to our trauma. It does not exist. I lost nothing in childhood till this moment. My life has so many breaths whether I feel loss and suffer or let go and live free.
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Adopting loss is the only loss we can experience. Everything withers so accept our frailty and be here to experience all of life. Desires bring loss with expectations of others responsibility.
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My healing began when I accepted full responsibility for me right now.
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12
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: C-PTSD, COMBAT, COMBAT PTSD, Courage, determination, EGO, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, willpower. 4 Comments
Adversity confronts every human constantly, really. Our ego wants us to believe others have it made, so it opens up negative feeling and emotions for us.
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The ego gains control of our life’s direction, when we engage the storyline of trauma. We dissociate or leave this moment to think about the past or predict the future, totally futile and harmful behavior for us.
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Totally harmful and futile behavior for PTSD people to engage in. Please reread a thousands times a day.
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Please add, I exert all energy to let go of the storyline and stay present!
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Recite positive affirmations when trauma triggers arrive. Physically exercise to exhaustion.
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Take action and develop ways to keep moving when scary shit appears. Having a plan does nothing until action happens. Move and exist here and now with multiple ways of coping.
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Be able to focus on the breath and let go. Practice instead of avoiding or dissociating. Battle for your mental life.
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Never give up; Never give in; Try as hard as you can until healing begins or we need sleep. Then get up and apply effort the next day. No goals, just all out effort and the resistance of thinking.
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Think of my model as a long sharp needle and C-PTSD a great big ballon. The thickness of the balloon depends on the intensity and longevity of our trauma experience and subsequent behavior after the trauma. My laser sharp needle penetrates the vast trauma network at its core. Handle thoughts with mindful focus and PTSD collapses from within.
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21
Apr
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ANALOGY, ARTICLE, COMBAT, COMBAT PTSD, PTSD. 5 Comments
It has been noted time and again, including here at You Served, that there is a stigma associated with veterans who have PTSD. While things may slowly be getting better, we still have a long way to go. And clearly, that goes for civilians as well.
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When the leading daytime talk show host runs a show calling veterans with PTSD “monsters” and “damaged goods”, it’s no wonder that there is a stigma attached to PTSD. The media gleefully paints vets who struggle with it as ticking time bombs, as stereotypes of lunatics about to snap at any given moment. The narrative isn’t new… but I don’t ever recall seeing veterans being so blatantly insulted by being called “monsters” and “damaged goods”.
I’m curious if Dr. Phil honestly thinks it’s helpful to paint such a negative, violent picture of veterans struggling with PTSD. I would wager he doesn’t care at all about how this affects our military. Because if he did, this show wouldn’t have existed. What he has done is continue to spread a false and harmful narrative about our troops, which spreads the stigma associated with PTSD even further. And what does that do?
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It encourages veterans who are struggling with symptoms of PTSD to become even more reluctant to come forward and seek help. Why would they? They’re being told that they’re monsters, damaged goods, violent abusive lunatics. While Dr. Phil is by no means the only perpetrator, this is by far the worst example I have seen in the media.
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There are links to voice your displeasure to the sponsors of his show. His comments are ignorant, abusive and he is supposed to be a healer. Bring awareness into your therapy session also.
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13
Mar
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ANALOGY, AWARENESS, C-PTSD, COMBAT, COMBAT PTSD, MILITARY, PTSD, Re-deployments, TBI. Leave a Comment
saltimbanques by Honoré Daumier
The soldier detained for the shootings in Afghanistan was a qualified infantry sniper, a senior Department of Defense official told CNN.
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The soldier was injured in a vehicle rollover while in Iraq in 2010, according to the official. The official described it as a non-combat rollover. He was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) but was found fit for duty.
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Remember the Psychology organizations and the army are still working on dropping the Disorder, ‘D’ from PTSD. That would have stopped this incident I am sure from happening.
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We have a diagnosis of TBI in 2010, he had served three tours already, maybe we have worn these minds completely out. Maybe they are paying for the military and politicians mistakes.
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The relatives of the people killed and this soldier’s wife and two kids are the best to evaluate my question.
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12
Mar
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ACTION, ANALOGY, ARTICLE, C-PTSD, COMBAT, COMBAT PTSD, EFFORT, FEAR, HEALING, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, THE BRAIN, TOOLS. 1 Comment
These men have phantom pain where their amputated limb existed before.
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This is study using 18 soldier amputees, in a mirror therapy trial, using three groups. The first group used the mirror to look at their reflected image as they tried to move both legs. The second group used a covered mirror and did the same. And members of the third group were asked to visualize moving their amputated limbs.
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The mirror tricks the brain into “seeing” the amputated leg, overriding mismatched nerve signals.
Here’s how it works: The patient sits on a flat surface with his or her remaining leg straight out and then puts a 6-foot mirror lengthwise facing the limb. The patient moves the leg, flexing it, and watches the movement in the mirror. The reflection creates the illusion of two legs moving together.
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After a month of treatment, all of the patients in the mirror group had significantly less phantom pain. In the covered mirror group, only one patient experienced a decrease in pain, and for half of those patients, the pain worsened.
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Sixty-seven percent of the patients visualizing their limbs got worse instead of better. The pain decreased in almost 90 percent of the patients who then switched to mirror therapy.
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7
Mar
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ANALOGY, ARTICLE, AWARENESS, COMBAT, COMBAT PTSD, Incompetence, MILITARY, PTSD, Soldiers, UNDERSTANDING, WAR. 4 Comments
Anneli Wiberg
Reuters Health) – Tues. March 06, 2012 – Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who are treated for pain are more likely to get very strong painkillers if they also have mental health problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study.
More than one-third of veterans with both PTSD and a drug use disorder who had pain were prescribed opioids.
Veterans with PTSD were also more likely than others to be prescribed multiple opioid drugs at a time, to get higher doses of the drugs and to receive early refills, Seal and her colleagues reported Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
And those treated with opioids were more than twice as likely as veterans not prescribed the painkillers to suffer an injury, overdose on drugs or alcohol or intentionally hurt themselves.
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This is incompetence, plain and simple. They are supposed to help not add another issue. Drugs are not the way out of PTSD.
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15
Feb
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ANALOGY, ARTICLE, AVOIDANCE, C-PTSD, COMBAT, COMBAT PTSD, MILITARY, PTSD. 4 Comments
- On Killing
This book details mans resistance to killing is stronger than anyone knew. Before the Vietnam War the author states that only 15% to 20% of soldiers were actually aiming their guns, engaged in killing. The other 80% to 85% were not firing or not aiming.
Examples are amazing: At Gettysburg 25,574 muskets were recovered, 24,000 were still loaded. 12,000 were loaded 1 to 3 times. One had 23 rounds in it. The author gives example after example of this repugnance to killing.
The author then goes into detail how killing is much easier with distance and anonymity. Bombers and artillery units did not get PTSD, however the closer you get to see the eyes of an enemy, the rate of PTSD skyrockets.
The non fires were not cowards, they supplied those who would fire and cared for the wounded. They did not run and many times died instead of killing.
Now, we have conditioned soldiers to kill with conditioning however, we have not figured out how to repair their minds after this conditioning.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XREUV2/ref=docs-os-doi_0
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