“FACES OF COMBAT” & PTSD - Eric Newhouse - 2009.11.21 - Show #460

Track 1:

Introductions

Emotional wounds vs battlewounds

Story of Jack - about pulling the trigger "first"

March 4, 2007

The Yellow Ribbon Program

Brain Schwitzer & Randy Mosely: How do you assess soliders for emotional problems.

• Most don't start until about 6 months

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Start Track 2: 21:43

Track 2:

About Violence in videogames + Hollywood Movies

PTSD: Builds with increasing stress

• Why are some more resilient
• Do some have more trauma in their background?
  • WE need to test for that
• Very different to understand - seems to be a normal reaction to stress
• Has it been around ever since man has been fighting
• Difference today:
  • In the past: you knew who you were fighting
  • Today: enemy is in disguise

Story of Dave & Daniel Belchar

Call about women in combat

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Start Track 3: 42:09

Track 3:

Statistics

Helen Benedict (Columbia University)

• "The Lonely Soliders The Private War of Women Serving In Iraq"
  • Military Sexual Trauma
    • 80% is never reported ("Common Rape")
    • Superior should NEVER have relationship with subordinate

TBI: Occurs when there's an explosion nearby and brain gets shaken-up

Some cellular brain death immediate

other cellular long-term

TBI vs PTSD: Similar symptoms but also differences

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Start Track 4: 1:01:29

Track 4:

Call about son going to Marines

1.) What can one do as he goes into combat

2.) What can he do as an officers for his troops

Building family bonds right now

check-list when he is in battle for his troops

Many suggestions from Eric

Reading of Pre-PTSD article

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Start Track 5: 1:20:52

Track 5:

Call about the past and the present

• Everything in the past effects us in the present
• Mind-body connection

Continued story about Mike Zacchea

For every $ we put into war, we should put $ into PTSD recovery

Secondary PTSD

Call about the type of war we're fighting today

• Department of War vs Department of Defense

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Start Track 6: 1:39:16

Track 6:

Article about Report dismisses idea of Gulf War

Jacobus talks about EFA's and Aspartame

• Email about supplementation for TBI

Treatment Options:

• Talk Therapy
• Alpha- Stim: Done around the country and in MT
  • $400
  • Use every 3-4 days: Help to reset the brain
• Neurofeedback: training the brain to reset itself
  • Everything we do, think - affects the brain, how we operate
• Mind-Body Bridging
• EMDR

 

Story of Jack - about pulling the trigger "first"

 

March 4, 2007

 

The Yellow Ribbon Program

 

Brain Schwitzer & Randy Mosely: How do you assess soldiers for emotional problems.

 

• Most don't start until about 6 months