ptsd 60 Minutes Last Wk - Va's New Ptsd Treatments

[Philip Rogers]

http://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/MKpW3seGJtSXT_3T8CJ5Vr7osIxkUBiR/preview-the-war-within/

Looked to me like an ad showing us how great the VA is. jmo

pr

[Commander Bob]

CB - can you say USA! USA! USA!

Yup, more BS. Time to put on my red, white and blue, PJ's.

pr

Hi pr.

lol

CB

[john999]

I guess if you are an in-patient and have to relive these experiences that is one thing, but if you are on your own that is risky to me. In psychoanalysis the idea for curing hysteria was for the patient to relive the repressed experiences that were making them neurotic in the present. This kind of stuff was done with shell shocked cases back in WWI. It is not new.

John

[Commander Bob]

The guy interviewed on TV is Kevin Reeder, Ph.D.,a graduate of Tennessee State University (2005), & Co-Training Director, Research Supervisor at a VAMC in Arkansas. Another example of our research money projects.

I have to admit that I barley understand subjecting this type of an experiment to the vet, (a guinea pig ,if you will), who had a single traumatic event. Not that I agree, in fact, jmho, it could be argued that it could harm the vet and exacerbate the problem. For some reason, this also reminds me of the "Electro Shock Therapy " practiced in the past, as well as the age old use of "Bloodletting" that our forefathers believed in.

However, JMHO, as a boots on the ground combat vet, who experienced multiple traumatic events on multiple separate occasions and different situations, I find this treatment inhumane and an unacceptable risk. Sometimes, PTSD comes about by multiple events.

You should have been around before PTSD was discovered. I remember those days, and the medical abuses well.

I wish those who encounter Doctor Reeder, my most positive thoughts.

Good Luck,

C. B.

P. S. If it look like a duck...etc.