Posted on Feb 26, 2020
The mental health community: A terrible mindset
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RP Members, Connections, and Friends, Victory for Veterans (VFV) is making an attempt to solve this issue through Holistic Wellness Centers, Operation Costa Rica, and Warriors for Life (WFL) Virtual Group Support (peer-to-peer support) keeping veterans and first responders in touch weekly or even daily. Partnering with great organizations like Wellness Wishes, and The National Veterans Transition Services, Inc, aka REBOOT, and partnering with an awesome app TaskHuman (coming in the near future with Warriors for Life (WFL) are just few of many more things that can be done to help with PTSD, PTSD from TBIs, and PTSD from MST, and PTSD from Invisible Disabilities.
The Journal of the American Medical Association published a report that confirmed what we have known for some time: so-called “evidence-based treatments” are not working for the vast majority of service members and veterans struggling with PTSD.
"We've got a lot more work to do!" - COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs
Put simply, the mental health community is a disaster. Their priorities are driven by insurance and pharmaceutical companies rather than what is best for the patient. The result? A suicide epidemic that is going from bad to worse, and hundreds of thousands of veterans unwilling to seek out any kind of treatment. Despite the failure of such treatments, however, we are told that we should be satisfied with a 30 percent solution, with comparisons being made in a recent article to cancer treatments.
Recent article: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/18/theres-more-one-right-way-treat-ptsd-veterans.html
Check out this article: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/02/04/va-dod-recommended-ptsd-therapies-dont-help-many-military-patients-review-finds/
The Journal of the American Medical Association published a report that confirmed what we have known for some time: so-called “evidence-based treatments” are not working for the vast majority of service members and veterans struggling with PTSD.
"We've got a lot more work to do!" - COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs
Put simply, the mental health community is a disaster. Their priorities are driven by insurance and pharmaceutical companies rather than what is best for the patient. The result? A suicide epidemic that is going from bad to worse, and hundreds of thousands of veterans unwilling to seek out any kind of treatment. Despite the failure of such treatments, however, we are told that we should be satisfied with a 30 percent solution, with comparisons being made in a recent article to cancer treatments.
Recent article: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/18/theres-more-one-right-way-treat-ptsd-veterans.html
Check out this article: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/02/04/va-dod-recommended-ptsd-therapies-dont-help-many-military-patients-review-finds/
The mental health community: A terrible mindset
Posted from militarytimes.com
PTSD
Suicide
Warriors for Life
Mental Health
Victory for Veterans (VFV)
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Mikel, we truly appreciate everything that you and Victory For Veterans is doing to help fight the epidemic of veteran suicides. I believe the entire mental health system in the US needs a complete overhaul, not just for veterans but for all of our mentally ill. Keep fighting the good fight, my friend!
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SGT Steve McFarland
SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D The "walking-wounded", those with "invisible" disabilities, are still wounded and disabled. Maybe we need something even more special than a Purple Heart... How would we depict a "wounded-spirit" or "broken heart"? There must be some way to remind the world that those Brothers and Sisters didn't come out unscathed either, that their wounds are as real as the ones we can see.
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SGT Steve McFarland
CPO Nate S. Maybe we need a new mental health paradigm, another way of thinking about mental health.
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Yes, we do have work to do. I believe that Will would still be alive today if he had had the resources we are putting together on WFL, but he didn't. The VA failed him, and they didn't have anything better to offer.
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GySgt Thomas Vick
I'm sorry for your loss Sgt. McFarland, the VA didn't do much for me either, still have problems, but I have a fantastic wife, an friends here at RP.
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SGT Steve McFarland
GySgt Thomas Vick Glad you have a good support system Gunny. I wish I could have helped Will, but he was gone before I knew he had a problem.
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