Below are the best articles we could find on Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD) and veteran well being.
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Military Outdoors (SCMO) is at the forefront of a national movement to ensure every veteran in America has an opportunity to get outdoors when they return home after service.
“Being...out in nature, it’s just good for the soul. It’s cleansing...it gets you outside of yourself. It’s my...way to decompress.” —Edye Joyner, U.S. Marine Corps and Desert Storm veteran
The aim of these ecotherapy programs and services is to connect veterans back to nature in a way that will conjure positive emotions and elicit a sense of confidence when reintegrating into the civilian world.
Volunteer programs help Vets reintegrate into society, improve mental health.
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A study of American servicemen finds that those who have experienced combat become more devout
Sebastian Junger’s book Tribe looks at soldiers returning home from war. He tells NPR’s Scott Simon that veterans often don’t feel like they belong to the society they fought for.
The loneliness of returning home after trauma
For many veterans, combat experiences strengthened them personally but also made the transition to civilian life difficult
Thousands of veterans who served in the wars that began after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks struggle with issues that are often invisible to those around them. Some are suffering from health problems and trauma, and others from feelings of displacement and alienation.
When veterans return to our communities after war, we owe it to them and to ourselves to do our best to support their recovery.
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