You Are Amazing

You Are Amazing

I’d like to tell you folks how amazing you are. You’ve endure hardship during service and then face stigma and discrimination for being psychologically injured. It’s rewarding to support you. Yah know what’s NOT amazing? When you are injured and...
Trauma-informed medical-legal (forensic) exams

Trauma-informed medical-legal (forensic) exams

I’m preparing to begin a day of VA exams. I’m just going to work again. Firing up the laptop, logging in, reviewing files, getting a cuppa. I look ahead for the day. I don’t wonder how they’re doing because I know. They’ve told me. They’re gearing up or crashing down...
The Stigma About The Money

The Stigma About The Money

For a long time, the stigma has been that veterans apply for service connection for the compensation, but as for the compensation part, I defer that to Congress.   Just know that it’s obvious that partial compensation de-incentives calling the doctor, which is...
Trauma-informed medical-legal (forensic) exams

The PTS response is unique to other emotional responses

The PTS response is fear. That gut punch rolls out from our amygdala when trauma memory is activated, and then our brains can’t readily tell the difference between whether something bad is happening NOW, or whether something bad is ABOUT to happen. This immediate...
The Silence Breakers: Healing From Military Sexual Trauma

The Silence Breakers: Healing From Military Sexual Trauma

Sexual trauma happens to girls and boys, women and men, in every sector of our society. We have a reasonable expectation that we are safe in all of these places. Shameful acts of violence occur in all these sectors, to shame a few. Homes – families, neighbors,...

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