“PTSD Comes Home!”

(PRWEB) July 22, 2004

“Twenty-seven percent of US soldiers who screened positive for PTSD received counseling during their deployment, and less than one-third of soldiers who expressed an interest in receiving help were actually provided assistance,” says Operation Comfort.

What everyone with a loved one in harm’s way needs to know about PTSD:

·PTSD sufferers are often the last to know; and often don’t seek assistance from fear of the PTSD stigma.

·Indications of PTSD are changes in sleep patterns; recurrent vivid dreams about the event and exhibiting uncharacteristic behavior (i.e. short temper); changes in work effectiveness (e.g. poor concentration, increased stress during reading, with symptoms close to dyslexia); reduced interest in the external world (e.g. feelings of detachment and estrangement).

For more information on how to deal with PTSD visit: www.bamboochest.com

Frederick “Cork” Graham is one of the nation’s leading authorities on PTSD. His latest best-selling book is The Bamboo Chest: An Adventure in Healing the Trauma of War, a memoir about his experience as the first American political prisoner held by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. During seven of those 11 months in solitary confinement, he healed his PTSD resulting from childhood memories of Saigon during the war, designing techniques he later used to assist PTSD sufferers as a drug and alcohol rehab counselor for the American Indian community.

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