Below are the best articles we could find on Military to Civilian Re-entry and emotional health and well being.
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Traumatic experiences don’t always have to result in long-term negative consequences. Research proves that exponential growth can actually result from traumatic events instead.
Psychologist Richard Tedeschi shares his research and insight into the concept of growth as a potential consequence of grappling with trauma.
In the wake of repeated deployments, visible and invisible injuries, and repeated disconnection, our service members and their families are struggling ― struggling to be well, to connect, to feel, to adjust and to stay together.
As a society, we think about mental health in binary terms. Either someone is OK or they are not.
Thousands of veterans who served in the wars that began after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks struggle with issues that are often invisible to those around them. Some are suffering from health problems and trauma, and others from feelings of displacement and alienation.
Veterans are often reluctant to seek help because of the stigma surrounding mental health issues and are likelier to respond to an approach that emphasizes discussion of here‐and‐now issues of adjustment to civilian life rather than mental disorders.
The Department of Defense is attempting to convey that the experience of stress as a result of combat-related experiences is normal.
Understand how to recognize and deal with PTSD, TBI, and combat stress
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Our service people are over-medicated downrange, mostly with legal drugs. This creates problems—from slower reaction times to possibly an increased vulnerability to suicide later on.
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