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Old 19-11-13, 03:06
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Wasn't sure where to put this article from a friend of the SOMM so I thought this would be a start and put it here.

It's and article about PTSD that our soldiers and Veterans cope with.

http://www.examiner.com/article/ptsd...s-and-veterans
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Old 19-11-13, 03:38
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"Likewise, in the military realm fireworks may remind a veteran or otherwise of gunfire."

In March 1991 I was 40 miles from the Iraqi border in Kuwait City. If the wind was right and the oil smoke more breathable, we could hear the Americans shelling reluctant Iraqis after the end of Gulf War One. When I came home I couldn't hear fireworks at Canada Day festivities. And it took me a few years to get comfortable handling firearms and shooting at targets.
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locally there is a programme running which provides vets with companion dogs, so that there is someone "watching their backs ", funnily enough these dogs are trained by the inmates of Bathurst Goal, and it works well.
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Bob, they have a similar program over here for our Veterans.
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Old 21-12-13, 17:54
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There`s also a programme out west (Ab) matching vets with horses The idea is that horses are particularly sensitive to emotions, tones, and gestures, so it helps vets understand how their actions, tone of voice, and gestures are perceived -received by others..-
Meanwhile, I suspect that -even without PTSD-, readapting to a civilian setting, dealing with standard family situations (whining kids for example) civilian bureaucracy, and sometimes A-holes in public, dork drivers...etc.... can be extremely frustrating and difficult to deal with after months of living on adrenalin
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