As always, thanks for sharing. Giving all of us a glimpse into your experience on and after the battlefield helps us understand and in a small way to grieve with you. Keep writing. I’ll keep reading.
I am heartened by the fact that you are now focused on this issue. Yes, everything is not a sprint. Sorry you come by that part honestly as they say-- Pops and I both. Guilty as charged. So glad you are focused on self care more. In the early years of the War on Terror as you well know no one was even doing field testing ..There was nada. You got blown up pushed aside and exposed and nothing was done....I heard it from many of our vets. Slowly after about 5-7 years in the guys returning were all marched off of the planes and sat down at the computer when they got off ,..lterally...and given a needs assessment that had PTSD checklist and mTBI within it. Of course you'll had your hair on fire so no one filled it out honestly because you didn't want a medical issue to pop up on your records....Even after that few clinical protocols were routinely given. I still see Veterans who I have to ask and I still try to educate social workers to ask the mTBI checklist questions with all veterans as well as query for sleep issues. You all are so humble you always expect that if nothing is bleeding you are fine. By the way you'll can thank the RAND Corporation and their gold standard early report (I'll need to check the citation) for their attention to the matter. A good group to say the least. They did a lot of good reports for all of us in the academic and practice trenches. So proud of you writing about these issues. Thank you for your courage.
As always, thanks for sharing. Giving all of us a glimpse into your experience on and after the battlefield helps us understand and in a small way to grieve with you. Keep writing. I’ll keep reading.
I am heartened by the fact that you are now focused on this issue. Yes, everything is not a sprint. Sorry you come by that part honestly as they say-- Pops and I both. Guilty as charged. So glad you are focused on self care more. In the early years of the War on Terror as you well know no one was even doing field testing ..There was nada. You got blown up pushed aside and exposed and nothing was done....I heard it from many of our vets. Slowly after about 5-7 years in the guys returning were all marched off of the planes and sat down at the computer when they got off ,..lterally...and given a needs assessment that had PTSD checklist and mTBI within it. Of course you'll had your hair on fire so no one filled it out honestly because you didn't want a medical issue to pop up on your records....Even after that few clinical protocols were routinely given. I still see Veterans who I have to ask and I still try to educate social workers to ask the mTBI checklist questions with all veterans as well as query for sleep issues. You all are so humble you always expect that if nothing is bleeding you are fine. By the way you'll can thank the RAND Corporation and their gold standard early report (I'll need to check the citation) for their attention to the matter. A good group to say the least. They did a lot of good reports for all of us in the academic and practice trenches. So proud of you writing about these issues. Thank you for your courage.