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“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
Conservationists make the case that veterans can have a career in the environment and a home in nature.
Although there are a number of treatment options for PTSD, and patient response to treatment varies, some treatments have been shown to have more benefit in general.
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Sometimes we need reminding of the healing powers of nature.
In a path to heal, a clinician guides a veteran through a conversation with an imaginary and benevolent “moral authority” to talk about the act or event that has caused suffering. The patient then describes the regret and sorrow that has followed, and asks for forgiveness or a chance to atone.
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.
Scott Atkinson says magic mushrooms have already done much to tame the post-traumatic stress demons conjured by two years serving in Afghanistan and Bosnia.
The loud, chaotic realities of raising young children can be a huge challenge for military parents with PTSD.
Understand how to recognize and deal with PTSD, TBI, and combat stress
Our service people are over-medicated downrange, mostly with legal drugs. This creates problems—from slower reaction times to possibly an increased vulnerability to suicide later on.
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