Recovery is the Mission of VetXPRS

 

Divorce is never pretty.The whole family is often wounded after a family member is exposed to something really horrible; beyond imagining. The Veteran has the PTSD. The family has trouble.

A most common symptoms of Brain Flash are broken families and disposable relationships. This is a tragedy; multiplied by the fact that most if not all relationships can be repaired. All the family members can get well! Everyone can Recover! If they want to.

Recovery, as we define it, goes way beyond learning to cope with the Veteran's "incurable mental illness"! Recovery is helping every member of the Veteran's family to recover mental wellness. A major tool of recovery is helping other troubled families to do the same. We want families to know JOY.

The VA has hard evidence that Veterans Can Recover Mental Wellness. We are teaching how to do it! Without charge. We want you to join us on the journey of learning Recovery and teaching Recovery.

Buddhists have a saying: "Man wait long time for roast duck to fly into mouth."

You will wait a long time for the VA, or anybody else, to deliver happiness to your home. You have to want it. You have to go out and seek it. You have to want it. But first you have to hope that life can actually be different. Without hope we don't dare to want something different. We might be disappointed. But then Hope animates awareness. Awareness helps us accept that we can make some significant Changes. Not because we Have To. Simply because we want to. And we "want to" because we are focused on that which we desire.

In this instance I think about any Veteran would agree that, next to health, there is nothing as valuable as a truely happy family in a stable home situation. Its like Heaven. Unfortunately, many of us have never experienced such a thing, living in a perpetual war of blame and guilt and anger. Sadness and hopelessness often rule. Fortunately, science reassures us that we have the power to make change happen. On purpose.

Imagine getting into a tub filled to the top with water. The mass of our bodies pushes out the water, overflowing the tub. The same way our bodies displace water, Active Conditioning can fill our thoughts and push out chaos, uncertainty and fear. Active Conditioning allows us to create new new mental habits that gently bypass our old habitual ways of thinking. Active Conditioning takes a while, but it is reliable as gravity. We can literally 'magnitize' ourselves to draw to ourselves that which we desire through the powers of our minds and spirits. Active Conditioning is the process we can use to translate the desires of our hearts into tangeble form in the material world. In other words; we can create our own Recovery. All of us have the power within.

What's the big deal about Recovery?

Recognizing that we have the power within us to Recover is the big deal. We can get what we want. We do not have to settle for what fate has brought us. Anything is possible!

Reprogramming ourselves to successfully live in harmonius relationships with others is the big deal. Relationships are the heart of anybody's Recovery. Love is a fundamental pillar of recovery. One can't really experience the joy of recovery alone. We need relationships to experience all life has to offer. Teaching someone to know the Joy of Recovery is priceless. Expanding someones potential to experience love is a huge deal. That's Recovery.

We know we can never change the bad stuff that has happened. That's just reality. But what we can do is radically change how we think about it. That can change how we feel about it. And that can change how we act about it. When we can chose the changes we want to make: "Show Time". That's when the benefits of Recovery emerge.

Hot as the Sun? or a urine hole in the snow?

The yellow circle is as pure yellow as the internet will allow. Viewed on the black background that little circle of yellow looks hot and bright as the sun.

But place the mouse over the sun. The background switches to white. What does the yellow circle remind you of now? One wiseacre said; "A urine hole in the snow."

What happened to the bright yellow heat of the sun? Nothing changed in the yellow circle. It's all about the context.

Combat, and military training change the mind. The brain will never work that same old way again. It's not a character defect. It's a bio-chemical neuro-muscular evolutionary survival mechanism in full working order.

We don't want to train that battle mind away with "Coping Skills" that always let us down in the end. We want to form new neural pathways that can ease those PTSD symptoms to the degree that the Veterans PTSD symptoms can become practically "Undiagnosable." That doesn't mean the condition is 'cured'. That is not going to happen. But if you not experiencing any symptoms of illness, does it matter if you are not completely well?

If you, or a Veteran you love has this brain injury, it can cause a flash temper, hard time keeping jobs, powerful urge to avoid crowds, and to be hyperalert. Vets with BrainFlash (PTSD) often have sleepless nights, they isolate themselves from others, they often use alcohol and dangerous drugs, they might threaten and hurt their family members, (without wanting to) to be highly agitated, and dangerously depressed, often at the same time.

If all I was telling you that Veterans and their families often get wounded from military experiences, that would be bad. Terribly depressing. But I'm saying that Mental Health Recovery is possible. I'm also saying you don't have to have a PhD to recognize PTSD and do something about reducing the symptoms.

Read a little about the VA's evidence based "Prolonged Exposure Therapy" here.