Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with ptsd www.salem-news.com 2013 I would arrive to work, coffee in hand, and my brain in screen-saver to sit in the same spot in the report room below a paper pinned to the wall that read “You know you are a nurse if…” I stared at the bottom of the nurse bucket-list that read, “Your next project is writing a book titled “Suicide: How to do it right the first time.” http://salem-news.com/articles/may232013/save-one-et.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may232013/save-one-et.php Thu, 23 May 2013 23:01:00 PDT A Marine Combat Vet named Jonathan Pablik is missing in the Seattle area, his friends and family are concerned, they say Jonathan is suffering from PTSD. Jonathan's mother, Sandy Pablik, said he was following a personal journey which he called walk of faith. The problem was he was the only one who knew what this all really meant... http://salem-news.com/articles/may202013/missing-marine.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202013/missing-marine.php Mon, 20 May 2013 14:01:00 PDT I don't know what else to call them, we do have pedophiles and they certainly are perverts assaulting helpless children. There has got to be a name for ranking sergeants and officers who take advantage of their positions of authority to assault personnel supposedly under their care. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182013/sexual-trauma-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182013/sexual-trauma-pl.php Sat, 18 May 2013 17:43:00 PDT As a VA Hospital customer for PTSD, along with other aches, pains and fractured limbs, I have a dim view of their purported excellence of treatment. Some of it is barely OK, but some of it wouldn't be allowed by the SPCA. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122013/women-ptsd-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122013/women-ptsd-pl.php Sun, 12 May 2013 16:48:00 PDT Jacob fell to his knees weeping as he watched his nine-year-old daughter, Jessica, lowered into the abyss of death, a site eloquently referred to earlier in the sermon as her "peaceful resting place, to await the second coming of the Lord." To Jacob it was the cold, dark hole where Jessica's body would remain alone forever. http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/religious-confusion-aws.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may092013/religious-confusion-aws.php Thu, 09 May 2013 23:46:00 PDT CBS Sixty Minutes on May 5 2013, offered absolutely the best portrayal of the devastation caused by PTSD and TBI. I don't know if anyone can really separate these two entities because they both scramble the brain. http://salem-news.com/articles/may072013/ptsd-therapy-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may072013/ptsd-therapy-pl.php Tue, 07 May 2013 19:52:00 PDT The Oregonian and and The New York Times both had headlines, May 3, 2013, 'Suicides Surge in United States and Oregon'. I believe military PTSD victims have the highest rate but there are far more civilians in that same age group. http://salem-news.com/articles/may032013/ptsd-suicides-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may032013/ptsd-suicides-pl.php Fri, 03 May 2013 14:16:00 PDT Despite what the naysayers at the VA Hospital system say, the recent events in B boston and Texas should allay any doubt of the reality of this horrific affliction of the mind, brain and soul. The Boston citizens were significantly traumatized by a few seconds of overwhelming terror. Everything after that can be classified hopefully, as recovery. http://salem-news.com/articles/april222013/ptsd-civilians-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april222013/ptsd-civilians-pl.php Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:10:00 PDT Forty years have passed since my deployment as a combat Marine to Vietnam. However, only several years since I acknowledged my inability to continue suppressing the demons alone. Like many veterans, the “Demons” have haunted me through nightmares, altered personas, and hidden fears. http://salem-news.com/articles/april212013/ptsd-demons-aw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april212013/ptsd-demons-aw.php Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:06:00 PDT Sometimes I just can's believe what I am reading. The Oregon Legislature recently had hearings about including Combat PTSD for medical marijuana permits. Senator Betsy Close was quoted as saying, "(I) am against expanding the medical marijuana program," and, "Marijuana does damage the body and especially the brain," and, "All drugs have side effects. This drug has documented brain damage and sex damage." http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/ptsd-close-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april112013/ptsd-close-pl.php Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:56:00 PDT Two combat veterans told state senators on Wednesday how marijuana has helped them cope with post-traumatic stress disorder and at times helped calmed one soldier's violent urges. State Senator Betsy Close testified that she is against expanding the medical marijuana program. http://salem-news.com/articles/april052013/close-ptsd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april052013/close-ptsd.php Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:12:00 PDT Just when you thought you knew what was going on in your community, here comes a story that just may shatter the security of your American Dream. This is a story about abuse, survival, false religion and dubious court systems... http://salem-news.com/articles/april032013/bonsha-release.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april032013/bonsha-release.php Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:22:00 PDT The VA medical system would like you to think that PTSD is depression, it isn't! It is a combination of extreme fear and extreme anguish. Vietnam Vets learned marijuana was good and effective for "battle terrors," and therefore, why not PTSD? According to them, it was better than a whole list of very dangerous, zombifying and lethal drugs. http://salem-news.com/articles/march252013/ptsd-anguish-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march252013/ptsd-anguish-pl.php Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:54:00 PDT Post Traumatic stress is one of the worst medical ailments of combat infantry, especially but also for emergency room personnel and severe trauma. Because most of the PTSD victims are military, Army and Marines, this story is about the causes of Post Traumatic Stress and what it psychologically does to the victims, regardless of whether they are military or civilian, because civilians get PTSD too. http://salem-news.com/articles/march222013/dogface-soldiers-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march222013/dogface-soldiers-pl.php Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:20:00 PDT It is very difficult to find anything about Marine Eddie Routh. We're only told that he killed Navy SEAL super-sniper Kyle who had the record for SEAL snipers. http://salem-news.com/articles/february212013/eddie-rough-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february212013/eddie-rough-pl.php Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:48:00 PST The latest PTSD killing of the Navy SEAL who was an outstanding sniper in Iraq, prompts this article. This is the worst PTSD story I think I have ever read, despite the massacre by Sergeant Bayles in Afghanistan in 2011, who blew away 16 or so civilians. http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/ptsd-killer-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192013/ptsd-killer-pl.php Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:58:00 PST Everybody and his dog Fido has jumped into the PTSD debacle with the aim of making big money. http://salem-news.com/articles/february152013/ptsd-pot-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february152013/ptsd-pot-pl.php Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:13:00 PST Suicide is now the leading cause of death in our armed forces. The David Lynch Foundation will host, “Overcoming PTSD and Preventing Suicides: An Evidence Based Approach through Meditation in the Military,” a panel and luncheon addressing the suicide epidemic in our armed forces. http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/military-suicides.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312013/military-suicides.php Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:55:00 PST First of all, marijuana is medicine and has been used since medicine at least since Biblical times. Further, despite bleeting by anti-marijuana government employees, it has never harmed anybody. Fallacious comments to the contrary. It never killed anybody either, which can not be said for almost all medicines in use. http://salem-news.com/articles/december222012/ptsd-mj-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december222012/ptsd-mj-pl.php Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:06:00 PST Last Friday, like many newsrooms across the country, Michigan Radio had the TV monitor on the wall running non-stop coverage of the school shooting events in Newton, Connecticut. As the reality of what took place began to set in, even the gallows humor typical of a newsroom disappeared and concern and disbelief took its place. http://salem-news.com/articles/december202012/rtdna-ptsd-vd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december202012/rtdna-ptsd-vd.php Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:06:00 PST Some will think the above is "word salad" but it isn't. I speak at high schools on Veterans Day programs and I ask three questions of the collective students: 1. How many of you want to get shot at? Most usually nobody responds. 2. Who among you wants to get wounded? Nobody responds to that either. 3. Who wants to kill a human being? The silence is deafening. http://salem-news.com/articles/december142012/ptsd-reasons-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december142012/ptsd-reasons-pl.php Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:17:00 PST The New York Times headlined an article about ecstasy for PTSD and TBI titled, A Party Drug May Help the Brain Cope With Trauma on November 20, 2012. http://salem-news.com/articles/november262012/ptsd-pot-mdma-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november262012/ptsd-pot-mdma-pl.php Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:04:00 PST There are no causality records of the dead and injured at Camp Lejeune. The Navy and Marine Corps strongly disagree that there’s any scientific evidence to support that the organic solvents and benzene in Lejeune’s wells caused injuries and deaths. http://salem-news.com/articles/september272012/buzz-baer-ro.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september272012/buzz-baer-ro.php Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:45:00 PDT PTSD therapy failures and suicides, even with VA treatment, are a national disgrace, reports The Oregonian. Military veterans are the main focus whose suicides far outnumber those who are not military veterans. http://salem-news.com/articles/september222012/ptsd-suicides-pot-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september222012/ptsd-suicides-pot-pl.php Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:25:00 PDT I couldn’t believe the latest spate of The Oregonian newspaper diatribes about medical marijuana (wolves in sheep’s clothing), I can see that The Oregonian and all of its minions are disregarding all medical science facts and figures in favor of the “Reefer Madness” and “Devil Weed” movies of the 1930’s. For Shame!!! http://salem-news.com/articles/september072012/oregonian-pot-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september072012/oregonian-pot-pl.php Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:23:00 PDT I am glad that the Oregonian Editorial Board thinks enough of this subject matter to dedicate an entire editorial just to respond to the excellent article, earlier this week, by Oregonian's own Noelle Crombie. However some of the things they say are incorrect and their tone is offensive to the men and women that I serve as a Veteran's advocate so I hope you will allow me time to address these issues. http://salem-news.com/articles/august312012/vets-ptsd-mk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august312012/vets-ptsd-mk.php Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:15:00 PDT The Oregonian carried an article about Army Combat Veteran, Theadore Jones, “Correcting for Veterans” on Tuesday, pointing out the disgraceful treatment of out battered and bruised medically disabled veterans. He was hit with bombs and grenade 7 times in Iraq in 2004. He is 100% disabled with PTSD and other injuries. http://salem-news.com/articles/august282012/ptsd-oregonian-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august282012/ptsd-oregonian-pl.php Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:51:00 PDT Eleven years ago, the NeoConservative Bush administration started its so-called endless war on "terrorism." What they did was provoke by decades of anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and blindly pro-Israel US foreign policies. http://salem-news.com/articles/august282012/suicide-soldier-gk-ba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august282012/suicide-soldier-gk-ba.php Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:45:00 PDT The child rape and molestation scandal at Penn State is an example of what is epidemic in Oregon and throughout America. Many of us who have been victims of sex abuse crimes are ridiculed, threatened and dismissed. http://salem-news.com/articles/august152012/betsy-close-2-ct.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august152012/betsy-close-2-ct.php Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:33:00 PDT All branches of the military have an ignominious history of extreme hazing. http://salem-news.com/articles/august142012/military-hazing-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august142012/military-hazing-pl.php Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:28:00 PDT