MAXIMILLION:

But if you have any familiarity with these sorts of conditions, then you would know that there are no cures for the majority of them.

Certainly there are no "Silver Bullet" one shot cures.

Thus, in the absence of a cure, it becomes a question of management, with a view to rehabilitating and training the afflicted to the extent that they are able to live life as much as possible within a "tolerable" window of symptomology.

This requires a wholistic approach. The fundamentals of good health of course apply - diet, exercise, a "warm hug" supportive environment, a pet can help as of course good mates. Colour therapy and an environment rich and stimulating to induce the so called "Disney Land" effect is also important.

But these things alone in the case of some shattered vets ( & others ) is not enough. More powerful interventions are required:

1. Traditionally, pharmoco solutions form a cornerstone but again these alone are insufficient, and neither are they desirable alone due to the in mnay instances significant side effect profiles.

Encouraging the bodies own mechanisms of homeostatic control is something which is achievable with Binaural beats. Rejuventaing natural hormones produced by the brain can be induced in say the Delta states, as measurable by blood analysis, and I can't say enough to do justice to how important this can be in some cases of mental illness, whether it be Post Traumatic Stress or otherwise.

And even brief exposure to Alpha frequency beats can be enough to induce for a limited period a feeling of peace and tranquility which can counter act the terribly debilitating states of prolonged stress and anguish.

A disciplined meditative pose to remain conscious, spine upright is required for optimal effect but this is easily enough taught.

So, suffice to say I do not concur with your view, and yes I have some experience with treating people in this area so know well first hand that the healing potential of the therapy in question is not a thing to be reasonably arbitrarily dismissed.

I am assumming you are reffering to 'modern day vets'. If not I withdraw my post completely!

If so,No disrespect to them but didn't they join the armed forces volentarily?

What! did the guidance officer forget to tell them they may have to fight at some stage.

Remember, they got paid a S- load while on active duty. Meanwhile our police, ambo's and alike get paid apittance in comparison.

The real problem is that our society has nerchered a generation of 'whimps', as oppossed to the past generations that brought up a group of men.

Go ahead all you 'do-goodders', take a bowe, and take a good hard look at what our young men have become.

The next thing you know is they will want compensation for their HIGHLY PAID SERVICES. Did I mention VOLENTARY SERVICES!

I am proud to say that I have one son, soon to be 18 and heading towards being a man!

Now be fair Dream on, you nowhere mentioned complimentary treatments or a holistic approach in your original post. The way it came across to me was that you were discussing this as a stand-alone therapy, to which I responded. In general I concur with most of your later post, so we're not actually that far apart, as I see it. I too have some little experience, not as a therapist, merely in a supportive role with the Salvo's, but have lost vet mates to self-harm, and to mental-illness relating to their service, so I do know somewhat whereof thou speaketh.

You're an archaic fool rehctub.

We don't advertise the realities of war. They don't tell you going in what you'll experience and you don't cover the topic any more than a passing mention. You also don't know how your mind reacts to situations until you've actually experienced them.

Attitudes like yours is WHY there's no help for them. PTSD can happen to anyone, any time. All it takes is a car crash, a break in, a job, whatever.

Unless you've got something positive to add you're better off shutting your hole. I dread your son having emotional drama's somewhere down the track, you know his dad won't be there for him.

We don't advertise the realities of war.
What a load! Every day there is footage of war on the TV. Every day people know more about war today than ever before thanks to our ever present media.

Anyone who joins the armed forces and does not expect to fight at some time has to be kidding. I remember the ladies (young men suposadly) that were crying and saying "mummy, I don't want to go" when the troops were called up to go to ET. And remember, back then, in the late 90's they were on an ADDITIONAL $1000 per week TAX FREE!

If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Soldiers today are far better armed, far better informed and comunications are far superiour to that of the previous vetrans.

I say again, we are simply nurchering a society of whimps. This is the problem.

As for your personal comment on my son, don't worry, he recons he's got the best dad in the world, and that's what counts.

Now you best go back and tend to your flock of panzies!

Oh rehctub, I'd just love to see you walk in to Lavarrack barracks and tell them they're a bunch of wimps and pansies, or Ladies, lol, I suspect you'd get quite a rapid "education"!
To bag the small percentage, though growing, of those so affected is to show yourself as a part of the problem.
Though you may not believe it, most young men these days are far more open and sensitive than their predecessors, and I for one am glad to see it. My two sons (and daughter) have no interest in a military career, and I'm not sorry about that, but I reckon that any person who puts their life on the line for US, our nation, deserves far greater respect than you appear to offer. One who is wounded, loses a limb, an organ, anything physical, is given all they require, and lauded by the likes of you. Do you bag a blinded veteran as a wimp? I doubt it.
Why are those wounded in their mind or soul any different?