PTSD: A Soldier’s Perspective

Compassion Fatigue and the Combat PTSD Caregiver: Dismantling Super Woman

A comment was left on my previous blog and one that made me think for quite a while afterward. Anonymous posted, Breathe, remember you are a parent with medical challenges to deal with. You are a full time caregiver to a warrior with multiple diagnoses...

Published Sun, Aug 22 2010 8:38 AM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: A Reservist Wife Perspective, Combat PTSD Home, compassion fatigue, Secondary PTSD

Call for Local Community Organization

If you are a family member of a veteran with Combat PTSD, OR a family member of the fallen. You are welcome here. If you need support, I can assist you in understanding the Combat PTSD Veterans mind and how to communicate with your loved one. We can do...

Published Sat, Jun 04 2011 3:03 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: advocate

Evolutionary Defensive Mechanisms

A couple of weeks ago I reposted an article on the various levels of trauma-based disorders . It was an esoteric summation (uh, doing it again, huh?) of a complicated 40 some-odd page paper from the leading edge theorists of the Theory of Structural Dissociation...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 5:04 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Structural Dissociation

PBS to Air Special on Supporting our Veterans

Tomorrow on Veterans Day PBS will air a special celebrating a group of senior citizens who honor us as a nation when the general public is busy about their lives. I will be representing my service to our country and honoring those who have fallen. I invite...

Published Tue, Nov 10 2009 8:38 AM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: inspirations

Massive Block Grants to Fund Treatment for Combat PTSD

This post all fits together in some fashion or another...dissociation. If you want to discover my perspective on the whole situation, you will have to read all of the roads herein to understand your war veteran. Dissociation is best written about and...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 1:01 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: dissociation, politics, PTSD rates

Playing Videogames Can Protect Gamers from Nightmares

If I could have THE video gaming device? Are you serious? Uh...well if I didn't have to worry about the cost or anything and the VA was going to pay for it (what) ...did you say ? Over at GameSpy, Mike Sharky Reporting , And it's only Wednesday...

Published Wed, May 26 2010 8:04 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Check the Facks

The Cutting Edge of Combat PTSD

The Place for the Cutting Edge of Combat PTSD~~ Scott A Lee. Here at PASP we strive to bring together people who have environmental connections with Combat PTSD; a friend, family member, loved one and our returning soldiers and veterans. Along for the...

Published Mon, May 24 2010 4:09 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: PTSD, PASP(1), PASP(1) Seal of Approval, Combat PTSD

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Published Sat, May 29 2010 1:36 PM by PTSD, A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Add to Favorites, milblogging.com

Wartime Trauma Versus Childhood Trauma

For the last year or better whenever I am stressed or have highly emotional experiences I find myself being brought back into my wartime memories, flashbacks, emotions and perspective. I was having a conversation the other day with someone close to me...

Published Fri, May 07 2010 2:28 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: substance abuse, therapy, trauma

A Combat Veteran Struggles with Leaving the Ethics of War Behind

Soldiers and veterans with full blown PTSD usually have low personal self-esteem, a self-constructed foundation of self-affirmations grounded in positive thought, word and deeds, reinforced through values and principles. Esteem manifests in an outward...

Published Fri, Nov 06 2009 9:02 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: values, reintegration, schema

The Graffiti of War Project

Used with permission from http://www.graffitiofwar.com/ Offering a unique perspective, experience the wars through the eyes of those living and dying through these conflicts. Each image represents a moment in time, when an emotion was captured in ink...

Published Fri, Jun 03 2011 11:25 AM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Graffiti of War

Frustrated and Alone: Combat PTSD Awareness

I received this comment on one of my better articles on Combat Rage and What We May Do With It ; the Combat PTSD Veteran. Frustrated and Alone (FA) was me 6 years ago, I have come back from the brink of utter loneliness and abject isolation this young...

Published Mon, Jun 27 2011 2:29 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Barriers to Care, Combat PTSD, community

Combat Veterans and Trigger Cues

Image via Wikipedia In a combat zone we look for regular angles in an irregular environment; the child holding a cell phone is, according to the law of probability, a death threat. At home these kind of distorted thinking patterns can become debilitating...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 1:14 PM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Filed under: Combat Values Theory, triggers, combatPTSDnews

Soul Whisperer enters the conversation

I'm one of those people you defended, kept free and safe. Unknowing of your sacrifice, I seemingly went about my random business, accumulating masters degrees while waiting for the next path Stone to be revealed. I learned in September 2001 why I...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 5:17 PM by PASP - Combat PTSD HQ

VA Celebrates National Family Caregiver Month

WASHINGTON (Nov. 8, 2010) - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is marking National Family Caregiver Month by honoring the service of family members and friends who have dedicated their lives to caring for chronically ill, injured, or disabled Veterans...

Published Mon, Nov 08 2010 2:27 PM by PASP - Combat PTSD HQ

Filed under: PTSD Caregivers, PTSD Caregivers Care

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