Faces of Combat - PTSD & TBI
By Jacobus Hollewijn
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.
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
- Military Sexual Trauma
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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