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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:: 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

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

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

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

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