By Romeo Vitelli — 2014
Can increased creativity be a coping strategy for dealing with trauma?
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More than 600,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have been left partially or totally disabled from physical or psychological wounds received during their service. Some of them compete in the Defense Department Warrior Games and find a place to continue to overcome.
I’ve done a little bit of work with soldiers returning from Iraq and have worked with domestic violence shelter workers on issues of vicarious trauma.
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The Paralympics had not yet been invented. These veterans were sports trailblazers. They were medical miracles as well.
As a society, we think about mental health in binary terms. Either someone is OK or they are not.
In the wake of repeated deployments, visible and invisible injuries, and repeated disconnection, our service members and their families are struggling ― struggling to be well, to connect, to feel, to adjust and to stay together.
Data from more than 10,000 brain injury patients -- including hundreds of variables and outcomes -- is being tracked in an ongoing government project that began 26 years ago.
A short article and podcast about how specially trained dogs can help veterans with traumatic stress, brain injury and PTSD.
When Peter Keating took off from the starting line at the Boston Marathon, it was the realization of a dream come true, but he never imagined just how unique his 26.2-mile trek would be.
How music and art therapies can help military service members.
An experimental treatment seems poised to address a dire mental health crisis.