PTSD

Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Baton Rouge Outpatient Clinic

The question I’m asking Veterans today. I’m new here, and I’m willing to learn. What makes a provider at the VA outstanding? How do we build strong connections with you?

The massacre at Ft. Hood two years ago stunned the […]

Today, VA is adding more vehicles to its fleet of […]

U.S. Air Force Veteran

As a combat zone Veteran with five deployments to the Middle East supporting the Persian Gulf War, I receive disability compensation and treatment at VA for PTSD and MST. Yes, MST is a real issue and needs to be treated, and yes, VA could be doing a better job, but will this documentary help?

Iraq War Veteran

With lots of press but little fanfare, the last remaining troops stationed in Iraq began packing up shop and heading home. I wanted to take a moment to thank my fellow Iraq Veterans for all of their dedicated service over the years.

Director of Communications for the Office of Patient Care Services, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Like most other Vietnam Veterans, I returned home from the Vietnam War to people holding them in disdain for fighting for their country. Now, I am glad to say, things have changed for the better – and are continuing to evolve.

Iraq War Veteran

Through this poem, I have PTSD, Wesley hopes that other veterans and their family members will be driven to seek the help they may need.

It wasn’t so long ago that the idea of post-traumatic […]

Many active duty folks and Veterans have an impressive sense […]

U.S. Army Veteran

With a half empty bottle of cheap wine in one hand (my third of the evening) and a DVD remote in the other, I sat on the sofa—eyes glazed over—numb. Somewhere in that drunken fog the night before I promised myself I was done drinking and I intended to keep that promise.

As I walked the parking lot and aisles of Costco […]

There is no one answer to PTSD treatment. Alternative therapy may be a solution when prescription drugs are not the best option.