Music group Smoke Season tells the story of a veteran with PTSD in their new video "When The Smoke Clears" Los Angeles, CA – Indie duo, Smoke Season, released the powerful video for “When The Smoke Clears,” the second chapter to their short film, ... | Read More
What Does Sexual Trauma Really Look Like?
What I Learned From Dating Women Who Have Been Raped I don’t know how I expected a rape victim to act, but I didn’t expect her to be so funny. Or to be punk, in this kinda sexy bleached blonde but kind of too lazy to really care sort of way. Or to ... | Read More
Playing through PTSD with Pokies
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder. PTSD is a condition which people experience after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event wherein serious physical harm took place or was threatened. It is a lasting consequence for ... | Read More
This Is What It Feels Like To Have PTSD
My daughter looks at me impatiently. She has said something that requires a response of some kind. I should know what the right response is, but I don’t. I don’t even know what she has said, or how many times she has said it. Long gone are the ... | Read More
You Can Get PTSD From Staying In An Emotionally Abusive Relationship
By Jennifer Williams-Fields Stop. Just stop asking why a woman is so stupid and so weak when she stays in an abusive relationship. There’s no answer you can possibly understand. Your judgment only further shames abused women. It shames women like ... | Read More
Helping victims of sexual violence overcome PTSD
November 17, 2015 — Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, is an expert on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a psychological reaction that occurs after a high-stress event and includes symptoms such as ... | Read More
The Connection Between PTSD And Problem Gambling
If you or someone you know are suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, you are also at risk of developing a number of unhealthy behaviors. Eating disorders, substance abuse, or problem gambling are just a few of them. The latter goes hand in ... | Read More
10 Ways People With Depression Love Differently
For people who have suffered with, or are currently suffering from depression, the popular term, “No one can love you before you love yourself,” is cringe-worthy because it’s almost impossible for us. One of the most difficult things about depression ... | Read More
How Can Home Alarms Help With PTSD?
A person who suffers from PTSD will sometimes find comfort and peace in the smallest things that can increase their sense of safety. This could be the re-keying of an old lock on the front door, installing a new home alarm, or asking the neighbors to ... | Read More
Marriage Tips for PTSD and TBI Families
One of the biggest requests we get for information at Family Of a Vet is how to keep a marriage with PTSD and / or TBIin its midst going. Unfortunately, those of us living in marriages faced with post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain ... | Read More
Trauma and Animals Go Together
What Does a Parrot Know About PTSD? An unexpected bond between damaged birds and traumatized veterans could reveal surprising insights into animal intelligence. Nearly 30 years ago, Lilly Love lost her way. She had just completed her five-year ... | Read More
A wonder drink anyone can make at home that reduces anxiety and stress
Anyone suffering from any kind of anxiety or stress should definitely give this home made drink a go. Anxiety and headaches are nothing new. We are constantly trying to keep up with a fast-paced life and our bodies are telling us to slow down and ... | Read More
Sleeping With Weighted Blanket Helps Insomnia And Anxiety, Study Finds
How can something so simple as sleeping with weighted blankets be a solution to stress, anxiety, insomnia and more? Messed up sleep can create a long list of secondary issues that can quickly become primary concerns if insomnia or other disturbances ... | Read More
Marine Veterans pay it back and forward with hugs
“That hug felt great. I needed that,” the Veteran said as he walked down the hallway of the Lexington, KY VA Medical Center’s Leestown Road campus. He had just run across five members of the Human Hug Project made up of Veterans and volunteers who ... | Read More
New Study of 9 Colleges Finds 10.3 Percent of Female Students Were Sexually Assaulted Just Last Year
A new comprehensive study released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics Wednesday confirms that women on college campuses are experiencing sexual assaults at alarming rates. The survey of 15,000 female students and 8,000 male students at nine ... | Read More
From “Irritable Heart” to “Shellshock”: How Post-Traumatic Stress Became a Disease
When people have suffered a violent or horrifying experience, the trauma can follow them around for years — and we call that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). From soldiers to accident victims to rape survivors, tons of people have found ... | Read More
19 Things Students With Anxiety Wish Their Teachers Understood
With all the pressure put on students to succeed academically, participate in extracurriculars and maintain a social life, it’s no wonder more than 80 percent of college students reported feeling overwhelmed by all they had to do this past year. For ... | Read More
12 Struggles Of Having An Outgoing Personality But An Anxious Mind
Outgoing people with anxious minds – or minds that overthink – tend to feel anxiety the most intensely, often because we don’t talk about it. And by “often” I mean never. Our anxiety is a contrast to our big, bold personalities. Strangers would ... | Read More
Using Lavender to Treat Anxiety
Lavender oil, which is distilled from lavender flowers, is often used in aromatherapy and massage. Despite its popularity, only recently have scientific investigations been undertaken into its biological activity. While there have been small-scale ... | Read More
What Little Steps Mean for Someone With Complex PTSD
I wake up most mornings, if I’ve managed to sleep despite the monstrous cocktail of medications I take, gasping for air, bolting to an upright sitting position and clutching my chest. It feels like my chest is caving in. It takes me a minute to ... | Read More
In which these 21 things shouldn’t be said to be my PTSD sexual abuse victims
:: guest post by Mary DeMuth I love Mary DeMuth. And I don’t mean that in the lame say-it-but-don’t-mean-it way. She was my roommate when we were in Haiti together in 2012, and she is genuine, whole, brave, loving, funny, and smart. And her ... | Read More
Veteran to attempt 2189-Miles for PTSD
Brandi Owczarz, Managing Editor BOwczarz@CalhounTimes.com George Eshleman, a former Calhoun resident who is the director of the Unified Warrior Foundation, will begin the 2189-Miles for PTSD this Friday, by hiking the Appalachian ... | Read More
13 Things to Remember If You Love A Person With Anxiety
Anxiety is tough, isn’t it? Not just for the people that have it, but for you – the people that stick with them – while they’re going through it. It’s emotionally taxing on both ends, it’s physically demanding at times, and of course mentally ... | Read More
You Are What You Eat: The Mind/Body Connection
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Major Depressive Disorder, as well as having horrific bouts of anxiety and panic attacks. I have been under the care of a Psychiatrist and a therapist since that time. During ... | Read More
How People Who Have PTSD Think Differently
Having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder changes a person, not only the way they think, but also the way they act and how they love. It can be challenging, most of the time with PTSD a few other things come along such as anxiety, depression and panic ... | Read More
The Facade of a Condition
By David Cummings — The assassination of John F. Kennedy is a dark day in American history. Television made it the first assassination witnessed live. Admirers in Dallas that day at the Grassy Knoll watching the Presidential motorcade saw ... | Read More
Finding a Way for Billy & Ashley
By Courtenay Higgins — It was unusually cold and rainy on April 5, 2003, when 20-year-old Ashley Streiter, back from Kutztown University for the weekend, left her Florham Park, New Jersey, home in the early morning hours to pick up her older ... | Read More