PTSD
PTSD
Posted on Jul 23, 2015
It's not getting better? For most Vietnam veterans with PTSD, symptoms worse over time!
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“An important minority of Vietnam veterans are symptomatic after four decades, with more than twice as many deteriorating as improving,” the study says. That finding raises policy questions about access to mental-health services and attention to the stresses of aging that may amplify symptoms.
It is also key to predicting the future of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, in which troops have been diagnosed with PTSD at similar rates, said Dr. Charles Hoge of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, who wrote a companion editorial for JAMA Psychiatry, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association, which published the study Wednesday.
http://www.stripes.com/news/study-for-most-vietnam-veterans-with-ptsd-symptoms-worse-over-time-1.359194
It is also key to predicting the future of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, in which troops have been diagnosed with PTSD at similar rates, said Dr. Charles Hoge of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, who wrote a companion editorial for JAMA Psychiatry, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association, which published the study Wednesday.
http://www.stripes.com/news/study-for-most-vietnam-veterans-with-ptsd-symptoms-worse-over-time-1.359194
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PTSD is (in some ways) like Diabetes. Once you have it you never actually get rid of it.
The most you can hope to do is to weather the occasional crisis and learn how to adjust your life style so that you can live reasonably normally in almost all respects.
Even then you are going to have "bad days".
The trick is to remember that they are only bad DAYS and not bad LIFETIMES.
Fifteen years down the pike and I still have days when I want to hang out the "I am having a REALLY bad day but I'm more than willing to share it with you - if you want me to." sign. I don't expect that to change.
The most you can hope to do is to weather the occasional crisis and learn how to adjust your life style so that you can live reasonably normally in almost all respects.
Even then you are going to have "bad days".
The trick is to remember that they are only bad DAYS and not bad LIFETIMES.
Fifteen years down the pike and I still have days when I want to hang out the "I am having a REALLY bad day but I'm more than willing to share it with you - if you want me to." sign. I don't expect that to change.
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No Shit? Where's my freaking M-79 anyways? And just because I put constantina wire and signs around the perimeter of my home doesn't make me more fu--ed up, does it?
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SFC William Farrell
I like the sign David and would love to put the Army version of that sign on my property but we own a B&B in Newport and my wife would shoot me with one of my own guns! And we wouldn't want to scare away the guests. And the M79, I wish I still had my hands on one! All the best.
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Sgt David G Duchesneau
Are you sure, SFC William Farrell, It would be a great conversation piece to you B&B
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
That is why it is so important that the VA continue to be funded, especially for mental health treatment!!!
It is a damn shame that our Vietnam veterans have to suffer.
That is why it is so important that the VA continue to be funded, especially for mental health treatment!!!
It is a damn shame that our Vietnam veterans have to suffer.
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PO2 Brandon Boucher
Out isn't just the VA. We understand that there are many different methods to coping with PTSD. I have personally found that guided meditation had been a HUGE help and I've been trying to institue a weekly program at my local VA, and the red tape and bureaucracy has prevented that from happening. I've gone to local Vet Centers and instituted programs with great result! The community is important.
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