CBS Sacramento - CBS 13 | July 29, 2013 3:02 PM - CITRUS HEIGHTS — An injured veteran of the war in Afghanistan who was told to take down the American flag she has flying from the balcony of her apartment is now being told it can stay.
Jen Elliot was shocked when she found a notice from her property management company on her front door last week asking her to remove the flag from her balcony, along with some other items.
“I was very upset and very offended by it,” she said. “We live in America. Why shouldn’t we fly our flag proudly?”
Elliot says she immediately checked her lease to see if she was in fact violating any rules.
“It does say you cannot have flags, plants or wind chimes. However, it does say that the American flag can be displayed within the laws of the state and proper flag etiquette. And mine is.”
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Showing posts with label PTSD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PTSD. Show all posts
July 24, 2013
PTSD, Suicide, And Our Military - A Little Pink
A Little Pink in a World of Camo | I'm friends with a lot of military widows. I try to stay involved in the community and I cherish the stories I hear from each of the women I meet. I have met widows who have lost their husbands in so many different ways. In combat like my own story, in accidents at home, in not-accidents here in America, from illness, and from suicide. While we are all spread across the board, it is quite a striking amount who have lost their spouse due to suicide.
To be honest, I don't know how to really jump into this topic. It is not my own story, but it was one I have come in contact with frequently enough to raise alarm. It is one that is becoming far too common in America today. And it is one that needs to be addressed.
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To be honest, I don't know how to really jump into this topic. It is not my own story, but it was one I have come in contact with frequently enough to raise alarm. It is one that is becoming far too common in America today. And it is one that needs to be addressed.
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June 21, 2013
A PTSD Research Study Conducted by an OIF Vet now PhD.
Attention Military Veterans:
A research study examining military experiences (including deployment experiences) of those who have served (or are currently serving) is being conducted by Dr. Steven L. Lancaster, a professor at Drake University. This online survey assesses experiences with stressful life events (including military events, such as combat exposure), current mental health experiences, coping skills, and thoughts related to these events and how your time in the military has affected you. If you are a military veteran who is 18 years or older, you are eligible to participate.
The survey is completely anonymous and takes approximately 45 minutes to complete. As an incentive to participate, all participants will be given the chance to enter a raffle drawing for a $50 online gift certificate to Amazon.com awarded to 6 randomly selected participants. The drawing database is maintained separately from, and is not in any way connected to, survey information submitted; therefore your participation will remain anonymous. If you would like to participate in this research study, please click the link below.
This will take you to a consent form and questionnaire. You will have a chance to enter the raffle after completing the questionnaire.
This research has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board for protection of human subjects at Drake University.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to eligible friends/colleagues/military members you know who may wish to participate. Thank you in advance for your help with this project. We are going to publish the results in scientific journal with the goal of better understanding the post-deployment experience of military service members.
If you desire to participate please copy and paste this URL into your browser (no http:// is necessary):
bit.ly/TMvKpx
Sincerely,
Steven L. Lancaster, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Drake University
Phone: 515-271-2844
Email: lancasterlab@drake.edu
Here’s the DesMoines Register article discussing his background and the project he’s taking on and why: “YP Spotlight: Iraq War vet turned Drake professor explores inconsistency of PTSD”.
A research study examining military experiences (including deployment experiences) of those who have served (or are currently serving) is being conducted by Dr. Steven L. Lancaster, a professor at Drake University. This online survey assesses experiences with stressful life events (including military events, such as combat exposure), current mental health experiences, coping skills, and thoughts related to these events and how your time in the military has affected you. If you are a military veteran who is 18 years or older, you are eligible to participate.
The survey is completely anonymous and takes approximately 45 minutes to complete. As an incentive to participate, all participants will be given the chance to enter a raffle drawing for a $50 online gift certificate to Amazon.com awarded to 6 randomly selected participants. The drawing database is maintained separately from, and is not in any way connected to, survey information submitted; therefore your participation will remain anonymous. If you would like to participate in this research study, please click the link below.
This will take you to a consent form and questionnaire. You will have a chance to enter the raffle after completing the questionnaire.
This research has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board for protection of human subjects at Drake University.
Please feel free to forward this announcement to eligible friends/colleagues/military members you know who may wish to participate. Thank you in advance for your help with this project. We are going to publish the results in scientific journal with the goal of better understanding the post-deployment experience of military service members.
If you desire to participate please copy and paste this URL into your browser (no http:// is necessary):
bit.ly/TMvKpx
Sincerely,
Steven L. Lancaster, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Drake University
Phone: 515-271-2844
Email: lancasterlab@drake.edu
Here’s the DesMoines Register article discussing his background and the project he’s taking on and why: “YP Spotlight: Iraq War vet turned Drake professor explores inconsistency of PTSD”.
March 16, 2011
Secondary PTSD and PTSD in Family Members
From **Wife of a Wounded Marine** by Karie -
I remember being at Bethesda Naval Hospital the morning after my husband overdosed the first time. I hadn't slept other than the small amount I had had before I found him dieing next to me. After a night of panic, vomit covered CPR, following ambulances, full blown panic attacks, and being yelled at by my recently revived husband for, "Overreacting and calling 911", I had had it. I can honestly say at that point I felt as if the world was against me - I couldn't think straight, I was "done".(READ MORE)
I can't remember exactly what I was doing but one of the Navy relief nurses pulled me aside and asked if I was doing ok. I started telling her how I felt. How I had been feeling. She said, "Sweetie, you have secondary PTSD. I wouldn't doubt it if you have full blown PTSD." I had never heard this term, "Secondary PTSD", before and this was a good two, maybe three (My sense of time is shot) years after we had been in the hospital. She explained it to me a little. She said when you are around someone with PTSD for so long and you are their caregiver you start to mirror them. The more she described it, the more familitar it sounded. I had been having horrid nightmares - sometimes even about war. My anger had gotten much worse. I was having horrible panic attacks. I was depressed. The smallest things seemed overwhelming to me. My memory was getting worse and worse. I was gaining weight at a ridiculous rate. I even had abnormal reactions to loud noises or anything that surprised me.
November 2, 2009
Did PTSD Lead to Murder?
Trauma in Iraq leads to drama in Oregon
By Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian
[Editor's note - Details of the crime and quotes are from testimony in Grant County Circuit Court. Other reporting includes interviews with the witnesses, families, police, Oregon Department of Corrections, attorneys and Department of Veterans Affairs reports. ]
October 31, 2009, 3:00PM
LATER, after the defense attorney wept and the judge put away his robe and the jurors drove home in the fading light, the consequences of war hung over this town of 1,845 like wood smoke on an autumn eve.
Fourteen months earlier, a young woman lay down with a terrible burden. She was pregnant. Her fiancé, Jessie Bratcher, was so thrilled he kissed the home pregnancy test kit. He researched how a baby develops and what the mother should eat.
But Celena Davis was not sure the child was his.
As Bratcher sat on the foot of their bed, she told him that two months earlier, she had been raped.
The Iraq veteran dropped to his knees and cried. Bratcher went to the living room and put the barrel of an AK-47 in his mouth, then stopped. He grabbed scissors and cut off half of Celena's long dark hair. They stayed up all night. When she complained of cramps, he walked her to the hospital at 6 a.m., so tense that nurses shooed him away.
He returned for her in his pickup and drove east to Boise. They went to a movie, "The Dark Knight." He had "Celena" tattooed on his arm and they returned home late.
By 9 the next morning, Aug. 16, 2008, Bratcher shook Celena, "Get up, get up." He wanted to confront the man she identified as the rapist. Bratcher drove to Ace Hardware, paid $10 for a background check and bought a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun with extra ammo.
He was shaking.
Back in the truck, as he jammed bullets into the magazine, Bratcher told Celena she had a choice: go to the police or confront Jose Ceja Medina.
"Police," she said.
But it was Saturday and the John Day police station was locked. Dispatchers inside saw the couple try the door, then leave. Minutes later, they stood in an open doorway of Ceja Medina's home.
His nephew, Fernando Ceja, a Prairie High ninth-grader, was inside messaging friends on MySpace. He fetched his uncle, doing laundry down the hall. Ceja Medina wore only running shorts.
The three adults stood in the yard, shouting. Celena cried uncontrollably. Ceja Medina denied knowing her. Then, he said it was sex, not rape. If there was a child, he said, he would take responsibility.
Bratcher pulled the gun from his back pocket and fired 10 times as Ceja Medina ran, hitting him in the buttocks, hip, waist, shin and, fatally, in the head.
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By Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian
[Editor's note - Details of the crime and quotes are from testimony in Grant County Circuit Court. Other reporting includes interviews with the witnesses, families, police, Oregon Department of Corrections, attorneys and Department of Veterans Affairs reports. ]
October 31, 2009, 3:00PM
LATER, after the defense attorney wept and the judge put away his robe and the jurors drove home in the fading light, the consequences of war hung over this town of 1,845 like wood smoke on an autumn eve.
Fourteen months earlier, a young woman lay down with a terrible burden. She was pregnant. Her fiancé, Jessie Bratcher, was so thrilled he kissed the home pregnancy test kit. He researched how a baby develops and what the mother should eat.
But Celena Davis was not sure the child was his.
As Bratcher sat on the foot of their bed, she told him that two months earlier, she had been raped.
The Iraq veteran dropped to his knees and cried. Bratcher went to the living room and put the barrel of an AK-47 in his mouth, then stopped. He grabbed scissors and cut off half of Celena's long dark hair. They stayed up all night. When she complained of cramps, he walked her to the hospital at 6 a.m., so tense that nurses shooed him away.
He returned for her in his pickup and drove east to Boise. They went to a movie, "The Dark Knight." He had "Celena" tattooed on his arm and they returned home late.
By 9 the next morning, Aug. 16, 2008, Bratcher shook Celena, "Get up, get up." He wanted to confront the man she identified as the rapist. Bratcher drove to Ace Hardware, paid $10 for a background check and bought a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun with extra ammo.
He was shaking.
Back in the truck, as he jammed bullets into the magazine, Bratcher told Celena she had a choice: go to the police or confront Jose Ceja Medina.
"Police," she said.
But it was Saturday and the John Day police station was locked. Dispatchers inside saw the couple try the door, then leave. Minutes later, they stood in an open doorway of Ceja Medina's home.
His nephew, Fernando Ceja, a Prairie High ninth-grader, was inside messaging friends on MySpace. He fetched his uncle, doing laundry down the hall. Ceja Medina wore only running shorts.
The three adults stood in the yard, shouting. Celena cried uncontrollably. Ceja Medina denied knowing her. Then, he said it was sex, not rape. If there was a child, he said, he would take responsibility.
Bratcher pulled the gun from his back pocket and fired 10 times as Ceja Medina ran, hitting him in the buttocks, hip, waist, shin and, fatally, in the head.
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October 12, 2008
A Soldier, His Dog and a Long recovery
Long Island Girl sends me notice of this amazing story about a Soldier and his dog reunited after being seperated by a war and nearly 4000 miles.
Grab some tissues and Read the Rest...
Soldier's source of hope
John Shaubach, an Alaskan veteran struggling with PTSD, was reunited with a long-lost dog.
By JEFF FRANTZ Daily Record/Sunday News
Article Launched: 10/12/2008 01:31:37 AM EDT
On Friday, Sarha Shaubach made the hour-long drive from her Wasilla, Alaska, home to the Anchorage airport by herself.
The winding road between the mountains carries too strong a reminder of convoys through Afghanistan for her husband, John Shaubach, a veteran suffering from a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder.
But Sarha brought her husband's hunting jacket with her.
When she reached the kennel crate, Sarha put the jacket against the door. The bone-thin black lab inside sniffed the jacket and jumped.
Zeus knew he was almost home.
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Three weeks ago, Rick Saunders was parked on the side of the road in Southern Pines, N.C., when a black Lab trotted over.
He had a mangy coat, Saunders said in a telephone interview, and his ribs stuck out. It was clear he had been living outdoors for quite a long time. After failing to find the dog's owner, Saunders took it to the vet.
That's how Saunders learned a previous owner had implanted a chip in the dog's neck. The veterinarian didn't have a current address or phone number for that owner, John Shaubach.
After a Google search, Saunders found a news story about John's service and difficulties. Southern Pines is near Ft. Bragg, home of the 82nd Airborne, Saunders thought. After a few phone calls, the Shaubachs had a message waiting for them.
Grab some tissues and Read the Rest...
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