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VA Sec'y said PTSD 'Curable'

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Oh...This OUTRAGED me....Found this video on YouTube...and it totally torked me off. Left a very reactionary comment as well.
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkPXT9FOIgc
About This Video
( http://www.vawatchdog.org/ ) VA Secretary Jim Nicholson states, once again, that PTSD can be cured. There is NO medical evidence that PTSD can be cured. Audio from C-SPAN, September 6, 2007.
Added: September 15, 2007
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkPXT9FOIgc
About This Video
( http://www.vawatchdog.org/ ) VA Secretary Jim Nicholson states, once again, that PTSD can be cured. There is NO medical evidence that PTSD can be cured. Audio from C-SPAN, September 6, 2007.
Added: September 15, 2007
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Just a thought - he said that 70% were "cured." Isn't the ratio of veterans returning that develop PTSD somewhere in the 30% range? Interesting......
but it's true. there's not.
just continued treatment.
daisy, thanks for always posting informative stuff.
Yeah, he was talking about the Cincinnati VA that is using Processing Therapy.
Still, those people may come back with PTSD symptoms later too.
Though, I truly think that Processing therapy could be a VERY useful component in PTSD therapy...instead of straight Behavioral Therapy.
My concern is that a glib statement like this, utilizing veterans fresh back with the war who after a few weeks intense therapy leave with no symptoms, will deny those that develop the debilitating symptoms later. If they were cured, why did this happen. The research that I have done shows that many times the trauma causes irreparable damage - meaning that it cannot be cured, only managed.
If those veterans who successfully completed the therapy and returned to society "whole" and continue to stay whole for the next 10 years or so, then maybe we can begin to talk about them being "cured." It is simply too soon to tell if they are cured yet.
So, here I am at 32, with PTSD....my high achiever, highly competent professional self...bludgeoned with PTSD and Mild Cognitive Impairments....
I absolutely HATE Stupidity...one of my biggest pet peeves.
This totally torks me, and I am not even in the Military...I can't imagine how it torks them. Argh!
I hope it's curable. I think it's curable, but I think it is only curable with some truly intensive, remove one's self from society to retrain brain functioning, in-patient treatment.
Maybe that's just my hopeful side, but I hope it's right. ;)
No matter what, what they are doing now and the standard of throwing anxiety/depression meds and treatments is just making things worse and, as SO many of you (us) said, if one can go for 10 years, THEN we'll talk and HOW THE HE!! is someone supposed to catch it AT THE BEGINNING????
I had NO idea what this was... maybe, if at the beginning. Aw, there is that perpetual hope again. :)
I still struggle every day to just make it.
We're in the dark ages where treatment of PTSD, and other mental illnesses are concerned. I lost faith in therapists and pdocs a long time ago. I have put up with more ignorance and incompetent treatment than I could begin to describe.
The VA is so politically motivated. Sure cure the soldiers in 3 weeks. That way you don't have to pay them disability.
They're tired of paying them when they can't work and want a way to either release them out of the system or shove them back into work. It's VERY sad.