By Annie Zhu — 2018
It’s been one year since I had my first ThetaHealing session, and I’m so grateful to have this powerful energy healing technique in my life. I can’t recommend it enough.
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In this ambitious follow-up to Achilles in Vietnam, Dr. Jonathan Shay uses the Odyssey, the story of a soldier's homecoming, to illuminate the pitfalls that trap many veterans on the road back to civilian life.
War and PTSD are on the public’s mind as news stories regularly describe insurgency attacks in Iraq and paint grim portraits of the lives of returning soldiers afflicted with PTSD.
PTSD is an extremely debilitating condition that can occur after exposure to a terrifying event.
A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.
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People who experience trauma often struggle with its effects, but many men and women have found meaning in their traumatic event and now experience life differently.
This is a journey of finding beauty within darkness. Former Army Major Josh Mantz reaches into the deepest corners of the human soul to expose the most difficult emotions associated with traumatic experiences.
In 2010 the Department of Veterans Affairs cited 171,423 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans diagnosed with PTSD, out of 593,634 total patients treated. That’s almost 30 percent; other statistics show 35 percent. Nor, of course, is PTSD limited to the military.
In celebration of Veterans Day, Talks at Google is honored to welcome Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanley, Ph.D.
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A pioneering researcher gives us a new understanding of stress and trauma, as well as the tools to heal and thrive. Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging.
Belleruth describes recent research from the San Diego VA Hospital, which concludes that Transcendental Meditation decreases symptom severity in Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress, outperforming Prolonged Exposure Therapy.