The Spy continues our special series on Mid-Shore mental health this month with For All Seasons CEO Beth Anne Dorman discussing the unique challenge of helping Mid-Shore military veterans and their families with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
As young men and women return from war zones to assume civilian life again, a growing number of those individuals suffer daily from the consequences of PTSD. Mostly undiagnosed, this condition results far too often in depression, drug and alcohol addiction, domestic abuse, and severe and lasting mental health impacts on an entire family.
In our interview, Beth Anne talks about this major health crisis and what For All Seasons is doing to reach these families for treatment and ongoing support.
This video is approximately six minutes in length. For more information about For All Seasons please go here.
Rebecca Ellison says
OOPS. The PTSD-suffering community is WAY bigger than only our war veterans (and first responders).
Although the military ‘shell shock’ of many years ago, is now know to have probably been PTSD, war/military combat is now known not to be the only cause … to say so these days leaves out all the instances of trauma to, for example, civilians who are survivors of sexual assault, domestic abuse, school shootings etc. or who are simply living in neighborhoods where gang shootings are commonplace … or working as police, fire fighters, EMT’s etc.
Why not simply offer aid to those who suffer from PTSD without first ‘categorizing them’?
(And please be more honest about the resilience of PTSD to any sort of treatment … PTSD can’t be ‘fixed’ or ‘cured’ … but the understanding of friends, family, neighbors and co-workers helps a lot.)
Being given access to PTSD care, based on military trauma experience rather than the simple fact of having PTSD from any cause, doesn’t make sense and simply is not fair. (With apologies to veterans, but, honestly, PTSD is related to trauma and trauma affects civilians also.)