by a Law Enforcement Veteran The inability to cope and denial can make the human mind do strange things. When I was a kid, my aunt and uncle Continue Reading
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Combat Stress Reaction Treatment and Why It Works
When we first came home from Iraq, we landed in New Jersey. We remained on base for a couple of weeks to get "acclimated back to the civilian world." Continue Reading
Understanding Combat Trauma – PTSD
by Dr. Samantha Case, Clinical Psychologist If you have participated in a combat tour, your primary orientation to the world has likely changed. Continue Reading
What it Takes to Build Resiliency
by Dr. Samantha Case, Psy.D. CCPT When I have been asked to speak or write about a clinical perspective of the effects of Combat Trauma, I tend to Continue Reading
Retrogression
Its generic blue tint looks like a night’s rest that for the last few weeks has escaped. Never did I think that one day it would turn into the Continue Reading
PTSD: Combating Mental Clutter
by L.K. McBrearty After almost 20 years of life in the military, whether on active duty myself or as an Army spouse, I’m still trying to climb out of Continue Reading
16 Years & They Still Don’t F***ing Get It
by Britta Reque-Dragicevic This first appeared in Britta's blog, "Life After War" on April 8, 2018, and is republished with the author's Continue Reading
The Wounded Warrior’s Wife: A Ranger Spouse’s Journey
by Shara Hegr Although spouses spend more time with their veterans than any chain of command, doctor, nurse, or friend, we are rarely asked to share Continue Reading
Busted For Child Porn, an Air Force General Pleads… PTSD
He retired from the Air Force as a brigadier general, but he was harboring a dark secret he liked little girls.The general, 69-year-old Frank Continue Reading
The Suicide Epidemic
by Geoffrey Dardia This first appeared in The Havok Journal on July 12, 2018. In 2018, the Department of Defense witnessed record-breaking suicides in Continue Reading
Send that Text, Save a Vet from Suicide
by Anonymous There have been several instances in my life where I have found solace in the idea of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. After this last Continue Reading
PTSD: Exploring All Courses of Action
It has become increasingly clear that today’s veterans are being given Band-Aids for problems that need stitches when it comes to mental health. It is Continue Reading