Friday, March 29, 2013

If Resilience Training worked, they wouldn't need an app for that

Aside from military suicides breaking records, more veterans committing suicide, arrests up and veterans flooding the VA seeking help, these are the stories that should prove once and for all the bullshit we were fed about Battlemind preventing all of this did not work. But what did the DOD do? They pushed the same lame approach so there are now 900 suicides prevention programs. Technology is a wonderful thing but from where I sit with thousands of reports to go through to finish my book on military suicides, THE WARRIOR SAW, SUICIDES AFTER WAR, if what they were doing worked, veterans wouldn't need an app for help with PTSD.
Help for PTSD, brain injuries may be only an app away
By Bob Glissmann
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
March 29, 2013

Darryl Summers merges onto Interstate 80, but in his mind, he's back in Iraq, leading a convoy of Army trucks, tanks and heavy equipment in an armored Humvee.

When you're responsible for escorting 50, 60, 70 vehicles behind you, Summers says, you keep constant watch for roadside bombs. It's dangerous. You're on edge. You don't let other drivers impede your progress.

In the heavy Omaha traffic, with other motorists cutting him off, the U.S. Army veteran becomes anxious and starts speeding and driving aggressively, just as he had on those Iraqi roads. As soon as he can, he pulls over and pulls up an app on his phone called PTSD Coach.

Summers, 49, runs through the app's stress-assessment tools and its breathing and relaxation techniques. The exercises, he recalled in an interview, helped him to compose himself.

“It spirals you from where you're at to a more calm, relaxed state,” he said, “so you're ready to hit the road again or ready to re-engage.”
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