Posted on Dec 21, 2015
Scientists stunned after finding PTSD comes back to haunt veterans
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RP Members this study found a huge spike in PTSD symptoms five years after they had dropped down to normal.
It’s a surprising indication that PTSD symptoms can reemerge after being dormant for a long time, and soldiers may need to be screened for it long after they return home, according to a Reuters report.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-military-ptsd-idUSKBN0U [login to see] 8
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It’s a surprising indication that PTSD symptoms can reemerge after being dormant for a long time, and soldiers may need to be screened for it long after they return home, according to a Reuters report.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-military-ptsd-idUSKBN0U [login to see] 8
Sponsor a Vet Life (SAVL) has a program where we provide (peer-to-peer) support via an online methodology in the Virtual World that helps members with PTSD, TBI, MST, and that are severely disabled reintegrate back into social settings and group functions. I'd like for you to check it out one of these days on a Monday evening. Here are the directions to attend a webinar and collaborate:
If you are interested and would like to attend a Webinar first, we are conducting them on Thursday nights at 7:00 PM EST. Please go to this link:
http://www.sponsoravet.life/#!veteran-webinars/ybtiq
Here is a link to our RP Group Page. Please follow the page:
https://www.rallypoint.com/organizations/sponsor-a-vet-life-virtual-world-solutions-d-b-a-sponsor-a-vet-life-wharton-nj
I look forward to communicating with you in the future. I hope you can attend a webinar and thanks for your support of the veterans, service members, and retirees on RallyPoint.
Scientists stunned after finding PTSD comes back to haunt veterans
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My PTS came back with a vengeance after both ten and five years after my respective deployments. It doesn't help that I was not asking for help, couldn't get help, and stuffed my emotions to drive on with my job until I brokedown.
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MAJ (Join to see)
been through about nine months work of trauma work, and have a good support system right now. How about you, how are things going?
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SPC(P) Jay Heenan
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I hope you are finding peace with your demons...God Bless you brother.
I hope you are finding peace with your demons...God Bless you brother.
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Thanks, I am after finally dealing with it and not hiding from it. There are some hard days and some easy days, I am just grateful to be alive.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
MAJ (Join to see) - Stay that way. Alive that is. Thank you for sharing your struggle. I hope you find peace.
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The scientists are stunned because they have never served, so why wouldn't they be stunned? PTS will continue to be the 'demon in the closet' until society stops trying to take away people's rights who have it. The VA could send you a letter telling you that you no longer can handle your own finances or telling you that you can't own guns anymore.
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SGT Mary G.
I know it sounds odd, but without going into details - I completed recovery from PTS after I enlisted in the Army. But then I wasn't deployed to a combat zone while enlisted, either. Why I mention it is because as a civilian, again, it did return slowly about 20 years later. It is as difficult when it revisits. Only difference I found when it's back is knowing better what it is and what triggers it. Anyone nearby or someone distant who is close not necessary bff close, but close to oneself in spiritual development who is going through hell themselves can trigger it, actually, even though we do not know them personally. It makes us acutely empathetic. As some folks who approach if from a spiritually perspective would say, it makes you into an empath. And that can be hell. Unless it is possible to turn off all emotions long enough to do some good recovery (just to be able to turn off the bad ones), then it is more difficult to endure. But doing that is hell on family life.
I don't pretend my own pts was/is like enduring combat pts, but all pts probably feels demonic given that it has something to do with survival having been threatened. Way back when the civilian world only wanted to play games that stigmatize and medicate, for job security and to fatten pocketbooks. I said no and refused to play. Figured it out myself and kept my mind as busy as possible learning, studying, researching interests. Dunno what they do these days for pts and don't trust it is any better.
I don't pretend my own pts was/is like enduring combat pts, but all pts probably feels demonic given that it has something to do with survival having been threatened. Way back when the civilian world only wanted to play games that stigmatize and medicate, for job security and to fatten pocketbooks. I said no and refused to play. Figured it out myself and kept my mind as busy as possible learning, studying, researching interests. Dunno what they do these days for pts and don't trust it is any better.
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To be honest that is strange COL Mikel J. Burroughs that some scientists were puzzled after a study "found a huge spike in PTSD symptoms five years after they had dropped down to normal."
This study was focused on Dutch soldiers and seems to have been a one of a kind study which was not peer reviewed and did not have a control groups since it focused on "1,007 Duth [Dutch] soldiers who had been to Afghanistan between 2005 and 2008 were examined for the study, with most of them having never experienced a deployment before."
Anybody who had been through a traumatic experience has experienced after shocks years and sometimes decades later. Head injuries and shock seem to usually have long term after affects which vary and are exacerbated by emotional, physical, and/or psychological changes.
Similar to grief which cane be renewed by sights, sounds, smells, tastes or seemingly random memories, PTSD and traumatic head injuries can be expected to recur seemingly like after shocks.
This study was focused on Dutch soldiers and seems to have been a one of a kind study which was not peer reviewed and did not have a control groups since it focused on "1,007 Duth [Dutch] soldiers who had been to Afghanistan between 2005 and 2008 were examined for the study, with most of them having never experienced a deployment before."
Anybody who had been through a traumatic experience has experienced after shocks years and sometimes decades later. Head injuries and shock seem to usually have long term after affects which vary and are exacerbated by emotional, physical, and/or psychological changes.
Similar to grief which cane be renewed by sights, sounds, smells, tastes or seemingly random memories, PTSD and traumatic head injuries can be expected to recur seemingly like after shocks.
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