Below are the best resources we could find on Veteran Well-Being and post traumatic growth.
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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.
Living with PTSD is difficult but you can recover and become more resilient.
In his role as the founder and executive director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), Dr. Gordon has created and implemented what may well be the world’s largest and most effective program for healing population-wide psychological trauma.
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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.
Between 11-20% of service members who returned from Afghanistan and Iraq suffer from post-traumatic stress, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Your struggle may come in different forms, and be given one of many different names, such as anxiety, depression, addiction, and/or PTSD.
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Psychologist Richard Tedeschi shares his research and insight into the concept of growth as a potential consequence of grappling with trauma.
In the third episode of ‘The Vet Files,’ a Paratrooper Veteran, Luke Morrison, who lost his leg while touring in Afghanistan, talks about his goal to become the first amputee skydiving instructor in the UK and how his positive mindset has helped him to adapt to life after his injury.
Horticultural Therapy is ideally suited to engage veterans alienated from traditional civilian healthcare routes who present with a range of complex and challenging healthcare needs. It presents, on the surface, as a deceptively simple and accessible activity.
As a society, we think about mental health in binary terms. Either someone is OK or they are not.
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