Faces of Combat - PTSD & TBI

By Jacobus Hollewijn

September 23, 2022

One Journalist's Crusade to Improve Treatment of our Veterans

with Eric Newhouse

The title of this show was "Gesundheit! With Jacobus"; a weekly 3-hour live radio program (with call-ins) about health, healing, and healthy lifestyles that ran from July of 2000 through September of 2019. Jacobus hosted 914 editions, mostly with guests discussing their profession, research, books they had written, or just to explain specific health concepts more in-depth.
For a combination of reasons the show came to an end. There will be a continuation with new shows called "Health In Focus with Jacobus"
Here you'll find a selection of timeless topics that could use another listen.

This podcast is from November 21, 2009

PROGRAM NOTES

Track 1:

Introductions

Emotional wounds vs battlewounds

Story of Jack - about pulling the trigger "first"

March 4, 2007

The Yellow Ribbon Program

Brain Schwitzer & Randy Mosely: How do you assess soldiers for emotional problems.

Most don't start until about 6 months

Start Track 2: 21:43

Track 2:

About Violence in videogames + Hollywood Movies

PTSD: Builds with increasing stress

Why are some more resilient
Do some have more trauma in their background?
- WE need to test for that
Very different to understand - seems to be a normal reaction to stress
Has it been around ever since man has been fighting
Difference today:
- In the past: you knew who you were fighting
- Today: enemy is in disguise

Story of Dave & Daniel Belchar

Call about women in combat

Start Track 3: 42:09

Track 3:

Statistics

Helen Benedict (Columbia University)

"The Lonely Soliders The Private War of Women Serving In Iraq"
- Military Sexual Trauma
  - 80% is never reported ("Common Rape")
  - Superior should NEVER have relationship with subordinate

TBI: Occurs when there's an explosion nearby and brain gets shaken-up

Some cellular brain death immediate

other cellular long-term

TBI vs PTSD: Similar symptoms but also differences

Start Track 4: 1:01:29

Track 4:

Call about son going to Marines

1.) What can one do as he goes into combat

2.) What can he do as an officers for his troops

Building family bonds right now

check-list when he is in battle for his troops

Many suggestions from Eric

Reading of Pre-PTSD article

Start Track 5: 1:20:52

Track 5:

Call about the past and the present

Everything in the past effects us in the present
Mind-body connection

Continued story about Mike Zacchea

For every $ we put into war, we should put $ into PTSD recovery

Secondary PTSD

Call about the type of war we're fighting today

Department of War vs Department of Defense

Start Track 6: 1:39:16

Track 6:

Article about Report dismisses idea of Gulf War

Jacobus talks about EFA's and Aspartame

Email about supplementation for TBI

Treatment Options:

Talk Therapy
Alpha- Stim: Done around the country and in MT
- $400
- Use every 3-4 days: Help to reset the brain
Neurofeedback: training the brain to reset itself
- Everything we do, think - affects the brain, how we operate
Mind-Body Bridging
EMDR

Story of Jack - about pulling the trigger "first"

March 4, 2007

The Yellow Ribbon Program

Brain Schwitzer & Randy Mosely: How do you assess soldiers for emotional problems.

Most don't start until about 6 months

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