Knowing if, when, and how to share your trauma story takes some thought. Disclosing trauma with someone you trust can help you recover.
After surviving a coma and fighting COVID-19, Veteran Jackie Williams returned to the stage at the National Veteran Creative Arts Festival.
In this episode of PTSD Bytes, Pearl McGee-Vincent discusses crisis support resources with Dr. Lisa Brenner, rehabilitation psychologist.
The researchers estimated the cost of PTSD at $232.2 billion for 2018, the latest year for which data were available at the time of the study. They called for increased awareness of PTSD, more effective therapies, and the expansion of evidence-based strategies to “reduce the large clinical and economic burden” of that mental health condition.
Clinical psychologist Pearl McGee-Vincent discusses trauma with Dr. Debra Kaysen, research scientist at the National Center for PTSD.
VA speech-language pathologists help Veterans learn strategies to improve their cognitive functioning and improve their quality of life.
The VetChange mobile app can help you to stop or cut back on drinking and learn healthier ways to manage PTSD symptoms.
VE-HEROeS is the first nationwide survey of both the physical and mental health of Vietnam War Veterans in more than 30 years. It sought survey data from more than 45,000 Vietnam-era Veterans, as well as 11,000 matched controls.
Psychologist Pearl McGee-Vincent discusses medications for PTSD with Dr. Paul Holtzheimer, psychiatrist at the National Center for PTSD.
Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Vincent Orduña. Orduña served as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War.
His two passions in life are the Marine Corps and music. “My music gives me hope and offers me a chance to reach out to my fellow Veterans.”
Finding out what is truly important to you at your core and what you are good at are keys to success. However, this is not easy. Failure is part of that process. But once you find something that clicks, it’s an amazing feeling, and opportunities appear when you least expect them.