PTSD Causes Early Death from Heart Disease

This is absolute bull-sh-itttttttt.I know so many guys with ptsd from my time in service and even now. hOW OLD DO YOU THINK VIETNAM VETS ARE NOW. in their 60s and 70s.........whoever wrote this piece of propaganda should be shot.

no mention of sucide rates among ptsd veterans.......this is a hot topic for me........the nannies are even trying to use any potential of a veteran in a combat situation as a means to deny them the right to own a gun.........looks to me like the heart association is taking their turn to throw out PROPAGANDA this week.

harleyrider1978 wrote:

whoever wrote this piece of propaganda should be shot.

I know it's a Reuters piece, but it was posted on Newsmax, and you can't get much more right-wing than that. Don't know what to tell you.

If anything is effecting the heart conditions of Vietnam veterans more, it's Agent Orange exposure! Yet, the Dept of VA continuelly refuses to address that issue in effecting the heart.

Mental health does in fact effect the physical body just as the physical problems effect the brain and nervous system. But, it's not black and white as many would want to believe.

Weclome Home Brothers

I don't know about the higher probability of heart disease from PTSD, but I sure know that persons suffering from PTSD are far more stressed than the average by a long shot. Many of us self-medicate through drinking and substances to put that "stuff" in a fog. Many of us are tense and
pissed off and can't get a full night's sleep because of early morning waking. The "stuff"
messes mightily with our relationships. PTSD
is on top of the suck list.

One thing that bothers me off are those people
who say PTSD is untreatable. My own experience
with exposure-desensitization for severe vehicular
PTSD tells me this stuff is treatable. Same with what my buds from Vietnam. Many overcame their
PTSD and flashbacks with different forms of exposure and desensitization sure tells me PTSD is treatable. Sure it's tough to face--but that's sure alot better than facing years of PTSD troubling after effects.

I used a PTSD written exposure method Emo Reviewer
and a vagus nerve relaxation method called the Dive Reflex
to stop flight-fight overwhelm during exposure-desensitzation. I don't get woken up anymore, get flashbacks, sudden anxiety and hyper-vigilence. I had to reexperience the crap, but it was worth it.
Here's some material on the written exposure
method the Emo Reviewer:

http://www.emoclear.com/emoreviewer.htm

Here's another good site on PTSD and traumas
David Baldwin's Trauma pages:

http://www.trauma-pages.com/

If you are a vet go down to the VA and ask them if they have any exposure type programs for PTSD.
Get demanding about it if they brush you off.
Ask an old head who knows the ins and outs. It works. It's basically going over and over the details of traumatic memories until they are desensitized. Sometimes you have to relax at first
so you won't be overwhelmed. Get a shrink to work with you or find a brother who was paraprofessionally trained in exposure and desensitization. Sometimes there just are not enough programs out there. The stuff is treatable.