https://news.va.gov/130468/innovative-clinic-treats-ptsd-with-acupuncture/
Acupuncture, which involves the placement of tiny needles into key points on the body, is now being used in a groundbreaking new PTSD teaching clinic on the West Los Angeles VA campus, as well as the emergency department and other clinical settings.

When Navy Veteran Johnny Theissen first started coming to the clinic seven months ago, he was using a walker and struggling with a variety of other issues. Since then, he’s undergone a “transformation” and speaks glowingly of how acupuncture has been a catalyst.
#ptsd #acupuncture #veterans

Innovative clinic treats PTSD with acupuncture - VA News

The ancient Chinese art of acupuncture is being used to treat Veterans’ PTSD at a new West Los Angeles VA clinic.

Acupuncture for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2814938?resultClick=1

#acupuncture #ptsd #combatrelated #stress #jama

Acupuncture for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

This randomized clinical trial assesses the effectiveness of verum vs sham acupuncture in reducing severity of symptoms in combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder.

Mehrfach Traumatisierten hilft eine Therapie ebenso gut wie Menschen, die ein einzelnes Ereignis zu verarbeiten haben. Auch intensive Beschäftigung mit dem Erlebten schadet nicht.#Trauma #Traumatisierung #PTBS #PTSD #Mehrfachtraumatisierung #KomplexePTBS #PsychologieHirnforschung #Medizin
Auch Mehrfach-Traumatisierung ist beizukommen

Seelische Verletzungen: Auch Mehrfach-Traumatisierung ist beizukommen

Mehrfach traumatisierten Patienten hilft eine Psychotherapie ebenso gut wie Menschen, die ein einzelnes Ereignis zu verarbeiten haben

#acupuncture Tops #sham for Easing #ptsd in Combat #veterans — Large #treatment effect observed for clinical and biological measures of combat-related PTSD

There was also a significant pretreatment to post-treatment reduction in fear-conditioned extinction, which was assessed by a fear-potentiated startle response -- a sudden blast of air paired with a certain image, such as a blue box -- in the group receiving verum acupuncture versus the sham group, and a significant correlation (r=0.31) between symptom reduction and fear extinction.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/anxietystress/108851
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2814938

Acupuncture Tops Sham for Easing PTSD in Combat Veterans

Large treatment effect observed for clinical and biological measures of combat-related PTSD

Can ‘life writing’ be therapeutic in response to trauma? An exploratory research project in Medical Humanities in South Africa | #trauma #narration #therapy #creative #writing #mentalhealth #ptsd

Can ‘life writing’ be therapeutic in response to trauma? An exploratory research project in Medical Humanities in South Africa

The therapeutic benefit of expressive writing has been well researched in the Global North but there is no literature from the Global South. Potentially healing interventions need to be investigated in different contexts, particularly where there...

When I was last in Gaza, the Israeli air force terrorised the population by flying fast and loud and low at night. All children bed-wetted and had violent nightmares, said a psychologist, and were 'damaged forever'. Such is Israel's exercise of its 'right to self defence'.

--- John Pilger, Nov 5, 2023

#JohnPilger #Gaza #terror #ptsd #trauma

#Gaza #genocide #trauma #PTSD #volunteering #SocialWork

https://twitter.com/AMPalestine/status/1740381252908204074

Palestinian storytellers bring joy to Gaza's children amid war

Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza are experiencing psychological trauma as a result of Israeli attacks. To ease their suffering, a group of tradition...#Anxiety #Gaza #GazaBombardment #GazaChildren #GazaHumanitarianCrisis #GazaMentalHealthCrisis #GazaUnderAttack #GazaWar #Hakawati #Israel #IsraelGazaWar #IsraelHamasWar #IsraelPalestineWar #MentalHealth #PTSD #Palestine #Palestinianstorytellers #Trauma #alHakawatistorytellers #gazachildrenwelfare #storytelling #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive
Palestinian storytellers bring joy to Gaza's children amid war

Palestinian people ‘living under constant trauma’: Expert

Dr Gabor Mate, an author and trauma expert, has described a conversation he had with Palestinian women who had been tortured in Israeli prisons during a rece...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Anxiety #GaborMate #Gaza #GazaBombardment #GazaChildren #GazaHumanitarianCrisis #GazaMentalHealthCrisis #GazaUnderAttack #GazaWar #Israel #IsraelGazaWar #IsraelHamasWar #IsraelPalestineWar #MentalHealth #PTSD #Palestine #PediatricMentalHealth #Trauma #TraumaticStress #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews
Palestinian people ‘living under constant trauma’: Expert

Outside my brother house they have been dancing around me for 20 minutes! I can touch them!! It’s magic. I’m so thankful for my iPhone cuz I was not prepared for this. This means so much to me. 16.11.2023, Minnesota, USA, pic by @mosaicgraffiti #AuroraBorealis #PTSD #TBI #NorthPole #Healing #NorthernLights

https://x.com/mosaicgraffiti/status/1725062594455884245?s=20

it takes #healing, processing, to come to healthy terms with what happened. #trauma.

(and as silly as it first seems, try #EFT, which, surprisingly, works even better the more severe the stuff being dealt with in #ptsd or #cptsd or #grief or #addiction or #survivorguilt or #stress or #anxiety or #depression or #burnout , or whatever trauma from, and with, toxic overload...
this Emotional Freedom Technique stuff helps,
as silly as it first seems, it really helps. it's no magic pixie wand that solves everything, but it helps with the #overwhelmed #overwhelm, helps widen the processing aperture and expedite the jam straight through )

#mendwards
[no guarantees, do research it yourself, just speaking from my experience, it astonishes me how much it helps, enough i want to share it, perchance it really helps alleviate a lot of suffering.]

Mental health and cannabis - good chat - curious about cannabis

Cannabis, Mental Health, Consciousness Research, Neurodivergence with Miyabe Shields PhD

very glad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNH0whizEtw got re-uploaded with the sound corrected.

#cannabis #mentalhealth #neurodiversity #people
#research #moreresearch #needmoreresearch #dontneedmoreresearch
#wellbeing #health #suicideideation #anxiety #depression
#science #dsm #pharmaceuticals #sideeffects #psychiatry
#goodchat #goodrants #goodstimming #carboxylgroup n_n
#life #society #capitalism #categories #masking #copingmechanisms
#tribe #connection #neurodivergentcommunity #honesty
#conversation #depth #shallow #superficial #pleasantries #realtalk
#abstract #curiosity #iloveit #fringe #taboo #outofthebox
#emotionalconnection #creativity #music #study #unquantifiable
#bullying #preinternetbullying #anonymity #pseudonymity
#stress #emotions #dissociation #feel #presence #feeling
#think #psyche #intuitive #stereotype #counterintuitive
#evolveouropinion #selfinventory #selfreflect #introspect
#mindfully #mindfullness #dynamic #childhoodmemories
#formativeyears #behavior #identity #subconscious #brain
#unconscious #association #prejudice #ptsd #forget
#beinthemoment #thepowerofnow #teaching #education
#learnedadaption #learnedbehaviour #compensating
#perception #honest #healing #familiarise #unknown #fear
#importantconversations #logicalconsistency #integrity
#insightful #ireallylovecannabis #cannabissavedmylife
#alovingandgivingplant #alivingplant #cultivation #learn
#beautifulplant #prettyplant #coevolved #neverforgetthefirsttime
#funplanttogrow #healingplant #sogiving #sograteful
#sharing #personaljourney #beingmoreopen #share
#religious #kinship #theherb #community #closeness
#aspiescientists #hermit #comingout #activetherapy
#consciousness #consciousnessresearch

#curiousaboutcannabis

#MiyabeShieldsPhD

[2023-04- 5 16:49:30] <@Digit> i see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNH0whizEtw has been re-uploaded. ... hopefully without the sound completely de-syncing between both halves of the conversation, like the prior upload's painful comedic fail.
[2023-04- 5 16:49:31] ^ ► YouTube :: Cannabis, Mental Health, Consciousness Research, Neurodivergence with Miyabe Shields PhD | BTS 87 :: Duration: 01:40:15 :: Views: 23 :: Uploader: Curious About Cannabis :: Uploaded: 2023-04-04 :: 5 likes

looking forward to part two too. :)

"They dont care about you, at all, at all, at all!" -- George Carlin.

if you can stomach facing the horror of this....
https://rumble.com/v289wnq-february-3-2023.html
"This is a unification issue"
"40 million people a year are trafficked" "it's a 150 billion a year industry"
"5.5 million children every year are trafficked around the world, most dont live past 7 or 8"
#RapedAndTortured #Pedophillia #HumanTrafficking #Malignancy #AbsolutePowerCorruptsAbsolutely #notapedophileapsychopath #Psychopathy #ControlledNarrative #StockholmSyndrome #Deranged #Detatched #ChildAbuse #ChildSexSlaves #Predators #Underclass #FaceTheHorror #DivideAndConquer #NoStrongManComingToSaveYou #HumanRights #ChildrensRights #AbuseOfHumanRights #Censorship #deception #division #consent #WeCanENDThis " #Yaughting " #Love #Mendwards #Identification #Abuse #Traumas
"look at #pedogate2020, watch #outofshadows" and #AChildsVoice if you can find it.
"seek the truth. dont wait for them to tell you."
"First, learn about Alice Miller and her work: #DramaOfTheGiftedChild #ForYourOwnGood #TheBodyNeverLies. Those 3 books right there, are paramount to understanding the lingering effects of harmful parenting. And we're not just talking about mom saying a bad word to us. I'm talking about systemic abuse that is in the home, that is carried within us for a very long time, and we tell ourselves a story that mom and dad did the best they could. And half of that is true. Because if they had known what they were doing to you at the time, they would have stopped. I hope.
The second thing, is to #Learn #EFT. #EmotionFreedomTechnique. It was developed by #CarlDawson and it has now been integrated into #MatrixReImprinting. You can go on youtube and look up the videos there. This is something you can do yourself. There's also something called #Havening by ~PaulMcKenna. These are all on youtube. But EFT and Matrix-Reimprinting by Carl Dawson ~ And there's many many practitioners out there now~ and what this thing is ~ I've done it myself ~ It takes the emotions of the past, and the thoughts associated with them, the anger the rage, the depression, the sadness, which we often burry, or get busy with doing something else, and breaks the connection permanently. This is a technique that has cured people with #PTSD for over 20 years, #ManicDepression, in 60 seconds, has been cured permanently, for people who have been on every single drug. And there's endless testimonies to this. And there's practices of wide demonstrations of this being done on people. It is a beautiful thing. And i is the thing that we need to begin to change our brains. To change the way we think. And to open our minds to a loving heart, that each and every one of us is born with. Because we have a battle ahead. We are going to have a lot of human carnage that we dont see yet, having manifested, because of the #Horrors that have been sewn into #Society, and our children, that are being summoned by this #energy, this #negativeenergy, this #anger. And they're going to be pulled from themselves even further, and given a righteousness to act in violence against their fellow human beings.
I cannot tell you the depths of how far this goes. I can only point you in one direction. If you look up Ronald Bernard, and his testimony, in the International Tribunal of Justice, in 2018. It's about a 33 minute video, it will tll you the entire time that we're living through right now. And it is very important. And there is a message of love and #hope in there."

"We have to start learning: We cannot be caught in this division anymore. The people who that are the doing the division, know very well, how to make you angry. And you have to say that's about enough. And when you do, and when this world comes together, against these #monsters. They will have no more power, because the only weapon that they have is fear. And that's how they get to these kids, they give them fear, and they put fear into them, and they keep them controlled through fear, and they do exactly that with you, through the #Television, through #TheMedia, through your #Politicians, through all these institutions to cause you #despair and anger and negativity, where argue amongst each other."

#AndLoveWillWin

#wecanstillmendthis.

PTSD is a complex problem, for which acupuncture has a great track record for dealing with it. Let's hope traditional treatments, like acupuncture, will be part of mainstream treatment options.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-07-cross-disciplinary-team-explores-nervous-ptsd.html

#ptsd #acupuncture #hope #treatment

Cross-disciplinary team explores nervous system workings related to PTSD, other mental health disorders

A first-of-its-kind study published recently in the journal Brain Stimulation measures changes in the human brain's response to a perceived threat following non-invasive stimulation of the nervous system via the vagus nerve. The results have...

#USA #PTSD

https://www.betterplace.org/de/projects/110128?utm_campaign=user_share&utm_medium=ppp_stats&utm_source=Link

Es handelt sich um einen Geldsammeltopf der PHB Berlin. Ihr könnt hier Spenden für traumatisierte ukrainische Geflüchtete. Mit diesem Geld werden die Löhne (künftiger)Therapeuten und Dolmetscher und die ganze Infrastruktur bezahlt. Es handelt sich um unbürokratische Hilfe, ohne Versicherung und kompliziert.
#spenden #spendenaufruf #ptbs #ptsd #ukraine #phb #therapie #traumatherapie #helfen #berlin

Unbürokratische psychologische Hilfe für Geflüchtete: Das Projekt steps

Im Projekt steps (strong together psychologically) wird, mit Unterstützung von Dolmetscher*innen, unbürokratische psychologische Beratung für vor dem Krieg in der Ukraine geflüchtete Erwachsene und Kinder angeboten.

MDMA trials under review in Canada over alleged abuse of study participants | Canada | The Guardian

All clinical trials into the psychoactive drug MDMA are being reviewed by Canadian regulators after complaints about abuse of study participants by a trailblazing American psychedelic research organization.
The California-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (Maps) has led the way in conducting trials into the medicinal qualities of the drug. In May 2021, it released results from a phase-three trial in the journal Nature on the benefits of the drug – commonly sold illegally as a powder or within ecstasy tablets – as a breakthrough treatment for PTSD, for which there is currently no effective pharmaceutical treatment.
But the government regulator Health Canada confirmed it had announced a review into the MDMA clinical trials sponsored by Maps that have in part been conducted in Canada, following a complaint that detailed “alleged investigator misconduct”.

#psychiatry #psychotherapy #DrugTreatment #MDMA #PTSD #trauma

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/20/mdma-trials-canada-review-alleged-abuse

Jimmy Kimmel on Elementary School Shooting in Uvalde, Texas

"Not a time for moments of silence" (by itself, again and again) - Jimmy Kimmel tonight, tears in his eyes

So tonight I saw this and compelled to come out of web retirement and update my resource on Children and Violence in order to share this video, mostly. Because nothing much has changed since Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook, one after another. (Yes, "woke", there are many mindful Americans who are equally baffled by the religion of guns before human life, and why we've just let the thoughts & prayers be the only result time after time.

So I updated that page, which - let me check if it's more than zero... yes, 101 people (or bots) visited today, not bad for a 21-year old page, unpublicized or promoted. I put it up in the immediate days following the attack, while working with children who witnessed it, teachers, and counselors. With PTSD like everyone else. Auto-pilot for a long while, right brain hazy and horrified and driven to do SOMETHING. In the next days I saw children's drawings and heard how they brought cookies to the firemen at the pit barricades.

Everyone can do something. besides sending thoughts and prayers. (Not that these are bad. But things much change! No?)

--

[wonder if anyone reads past the new normal 7secs attention span? If so, congratulations, thanks, and this is 7th-inning stretch]

Fast forward, Columbine. Got me back to pursuing reasons and solutions for violence. (Spoiler: It's exponentially worse now)
But I worked with APA (psychology) and MTV (media/teen audience) giving talks on "Warning Signs" of suicide/depression etc..

A few years of calm between mass shootings. Fast forward again, it's now a near-weekly event. Four years of #TrumpVirus added to existing PTSD amplified by COVID & a division and tribalism plus a big cult of conspiracy & alternative facts. Thank you #Fox/ #GQP)

Here we are. A depleted and tribal Congress ministering to NRA and #TrumpVirus, deadlocked and gone for va-cay ...
Anything at all - pressure on OUR employees, supposedly working for WE the PEOPLE - "representatives". (scary thought too)

#StaySafe #Violence #guns #massacres #psychology #Children #PTSD #Fenichel #USCongress #culture

Take 2, with correct url/web address...

FWIW… I started this on Sept 12, 2001, as I sat in a daze trying to kick-start my ability to think and act, after the WTC attack.

Children and Violence

I updated this page through around 2013, but by then the mass shootings were happening routinely and I simply could not keep up. Which is a good indication that a new “norm”, with desensitization and was underway. As others began years of PTSD…

20+ years on, again and again and again…
And “only in America!”. Streaming live in a Congress near you.
On auto-replay, with no way out, it seems.

#MakeAmericaSaneAgain #violence #trauma #PTSD #children #MentalHealth #fenichel

FWIW.... I started this on Sept 12, 2001, as I sat in a daze trying to kick-start my ability to think and act, after the WTC attack.

Children and Violence

I updated this page through around 2013, but by then the mass shootings were happening routinely and I simply could not keep up. Which is a good indication that a new "norm", with desensitization and was underway. As others began years of PTSD...

20+ years on, again and again and again...
And "only in America!". Streaming live in a Congress near you.
On auto-replay, with no way out, it seems.

#MakeAmericaSaneAgain #violence #trauma #PTSD