A recent NBC news story talks about how a PTSD diagnosis can break an individual. Yes it can, but I believe what is broken can be healed. We can defeat PTSD. A life destroyed, can be a life reborn. From the NBC news article: PTSD can really ruin peoples’ lives,…
The recent Fort Hood shooting has once again shined a light on the military mental health crisis. Whatever caused this tragedy to happen, we know that the shooter was already in the military’s mental health care system, yet it seems they were caught off guard by his violence. An article…
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” A quote from the great Winston Churchill. How awesome and true is that? But what do many of us do when all hope seems lost? We stagger around for help. We look for the easy way out. We try to cut our…
I was having a bad day. I was down, discouraged, and afraid. The last thing I expected was to receive hope from the homeless. That evening I was to visit the local Veterans Administration Domiciliary, a place where once homeless veterans can live while they get counseling, clean up, find…
We spend years and millions of dollars training our troops to fight. We take young men and women, most of whom have never been trained to shoot, and teach them how to aim at a stranger and successfully kill them. Now that sounds harsh, but it is the truth. In…
How do we understand and do something about veteran suicide? First we need to understand suicide itself. Typically, when someone kills themself three things have happened. In reality it’s obviously more complicated than this, but it is a good place to start: 1) They are in long-term physical and/or emotional…
