Posted on Dec 3, 2019
Is there a mentor organization to help teach motorcycle riding skills for those with PTSD?
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I’m trying to get over some fears and mental roadblocks in my life and was trying to find a way to disconnect mentally and was told about motorcycle therapy. So, I’m was wondering if there was any elders in the world of motorcycle riding that I can connect with locally.
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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Motorcycle Safety Foundation Rider Coach
Warriors for Life
Motorcycles PTSD Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Motorcycle Safety Foundation Rider Coach Warriors for Life
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Riding has made stress and PTSD easier for me, but I had been riding for years before the military. You could start with an MSF basic rider course, even if you have been riding. They refresh some things that you may have either forgotten or never knew.
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As well depending on where you live, there are folks doing amazing therapy with horses. Out-stinkin-standing animals. Here's a pic of me on my four-wheeler Boaz.
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PFC James (LURCH) Janota
I had a horse but I had to put him down. That killed horseback riding for me.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
PFC James (LURCH) Janota - Well I personally would put safety as the number one criteria.
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SGT Richard Gocio
Hey Major, hope that you don't mind that I caught on a word, "Trust"
As a "PTSD" vet, that one word, or the lack of it, had a lot to do with many of the problems I created in my life after leaving active service. Here it is decades later and I still don't "trust" my environment when I go into a large restraunt or mall. My friends make fun of me because they notice how vigilant I become in a crowd. I know of a vet, a close friend, who can't drive alone. He needs someone with him to go anywhere in a vehicle. He dosen't "trust" himself not to act out in some way in anger or frustration while driving. But he "trusts" that he won't do so while someone is with him because his desire to keep them safe is greater tha his impulse to smash into am agressive driver.
If anyone out there notices these same "trust" issues in themselves, get two things, 1. Help fom the VA, and 2. Friends you can trust that will be by your side and see you through those days when 'Trust" is hard to come by.
As a "PTSD" vet, that one word, or the lack of it, had a lot to do with many of the problems I created in my life after leaving active service. Here it is decades later and I still don't "trust" my environment when I go into a large restraunt or mall. My friends make fun of me because they notice how vigilant I become in a crowd. I know of a vet, a close friend, who can't drive alone. He needs someone with him to go anywhere in a vehicle. He dosen't "trust" himself not to act out in some way in anger or frustration while driving. But he "trusts" that he won't do so while someone is with him because his desire to keep them safe is greater tha his impulse to smash into am agressive driver.
If anyone out there notices these same "trust" issues in themselves, get two things, 1. Help fom the VA, and 2. Friends you can trust that will be by your side and see you through those days when 'Trust" is hard to come by.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
SGT Richard Gocio - Thanks for the wonderful response. Sometimes at intersections I literally don't see oncoming vehicles after I look. Now I look 4 times at stop signs.
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