HOPE4PTSDVETS.org

07/24/2015

04/09/2015

Decades after the Holocaust subclinical PTSD symptoms in elderly survivors often transform into delayed-onset posttraumatic stress disorder.

04/07/2015

Newly published research by Stanford scholar Emma Seppala shows how meditation and breathing exercises can help military veterans recover from post-traumatic stress disorder.

03/26/2015

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back. There are some things that time can not mend. Some hurts that go too deep... that have taken hold.” Frodo Baggins

03/17/2015

Thank you everyone for helping us reach 1000 likes. We will continue to raise awareness about PTSD and provide a path to healing and wholeness.

03/09/2015

Very well done...

Scott Pelley revisits men who served in a Marine company that took especially high casualties in Afghanistan; a group he first met five years ago

03/06/2015

Several articles written in the New York Times about Veterans and PTSD...

News about Veterans. Commentary and archival information about Veterans from The New York Times.

02/26/2015

In memory of Sgt Brett Aycock. I did not know you brother but I know all to well the invisible wounds that cost you your life. If not for some luck they would have cost me mine. You fought and inspired others to fight a relentless enemy and left us a hero. Rest in Peace

Those of us who carry the invisible wounds of combat trauma are still fighting a war, every moment of every day, against an unrelenting enemy hell bent on destroying us. This enemy has many weapons in its arsenal, it is patient, and it knows our weaknesses. This enemy can lose every battle but one and still win the war. We, as PTSD Veterans, must remain vigilant on the battlefield of our minds and be present for our brothers and sisters fighting right beside us. The casualties in this war continue to grow and we may never completely defeat this insurgent enemy; but, we must stand together, continue to fight, and NEVER surrender!

WYSHproject.org

02/23/2015

02/18/2015

When Civil War soldiers 'saw the elephant,' as they called going into action, some of them sustained injuries they could not name. Wounds to the mind left them open to imputations of malingering, allegations of cowardice or charges of desertion. For the Union army had no label like shell shock, batt…

02/18/2015

"Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other."
-- Deepak Chopra

02/16/2015

King, A. P., Erickson, T. M., Giardino, N. D., Favorite, T., Rauch, S. A.M., Robinson, E., Kulkarni, M. and Liberzon, I. (2013), A PILOT STUDY OF GROUP MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY (MBCT) FOR COMBAT VETERANS WITH POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD). Depress. Anxiety, 30: 638–645. doi: 10.100…