Posted on 07/21/2015 1:39:09 PM PDT by dware
Twelve years after her capture during the Iraq War, Jessica Lynch, 32, still suffers from the emotional and physical trauma of the ordeal.
She is haunted by nightmares of Iraqi men chasing her through woods, always waking up before they catch her.
Lynch is no stranger to sleepless nights and she constantly locks and rechecks all of the doors and windows in her home.
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Megan, I’m so sorry. Hugs to you.
Like the person you know, they love this country dearly and have done what they can to live the American Dream.
Bump that
Another PTSD Vet.
I hope she's using the VA programs, they are the best.
I can relate.
Breathing definitely helps in the short term. Sometimes it's all you've got between you and oblivion.
But it must be supported by GROUP THERAPY with Vets who have similar injury.
There's no substitute for that in the long run.
Wow, the comments section in the article are brutal....
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Because of the need to be liberal and politically correct destroy the warrior culture, we have been compelled to look at women in combat, in the Navy Seals, etc. as some sort of civil rights issue.
Fixed it for you.
Great tagline. They say great minds think alike.
Conservative4Ever: Interesting technique. It seems to me to be a physical and mental *exhaling*.
It’s important to understand that these aren’t “calming breaths” as we know them. Rather, this is a neurophysiological triggering technique to stimulate a release of traumatically imprinted emotional patterns. What research I’ve found indicates that emotional and psychological trauma is actually stored in the muscles. That’s why various forms of “bodywork” help so much.
If you think about it, this makes a lot of sense, because the things that happen to emotionally traumatize people are often very physical - combat, rape, car accidents, muggings, etc. Also, when things are more psychological trauma, even they work by creating a physical "fight-or-flight" crisis that isn't resolved, but still "felt" by the body. So later, when talk therapy takes over, the mind is addressed, but the body is not. And PTSD is seriously about the body - waking up, jamming into emergency high gear, sleep interruption and exhaustion, and memories and dreams that are very physical, of the actual feelings of when the trauma happened, the impacts on the body, the sights and smells and sounds of it all. Those memories are stored in the muscles of the body. And the brain holds the "file wrappers" that combine the various energy patterns in the body into a "visceral memory."
Well, with this “circular breathing,” once it gets going the effect seems to be an organized release of those emotional trauma energies that has been stored in the muscles of the body. By organized, I mean that the patterns themselves of the trauma are release as patterns, no matter what combination of muscles they’re stored in. Presumably, this circular breathing stimulates the parts of the brain that already know how to do this, but we just haven’t learned to activate yet. So it’s "just breathing," yes, but breathing in a certain pattern in order to trigger the release of these stuck emotional patterns in the body and thereby release them so they don't keep coming back to memory.
Psychotherapy, whether group or single or family or any other form, seeks the same kind of release, but through discussion and sharing of memories, thoughts and feelings. And that’s fine, as far as it goes. But talk therapy is very inefficient. Deep breakthroughs are rare and hard-fought, and minor improvements often require constant upkeep. Interestingly, when releases do come through talk therapy they often start through discussion leading to crying. The crying triggers the release of deeper grief, which often comes out as what people call “sobbing.” But sobbing is the natural invocation of circular breathing while crying - crying is just the way that the circular breathing starts in that case.
So the cathartic effect of talk therapy is still linked, perhaps very literally, to circular breathing. That’s why the people who first explored it called it “conscious” circular breathing, in other words, invoking the breathwork that triggers the releases deliberately, without waiting for something else to naturally invoke it. Not only is it more controllable that way, it can be done repeatedly, until something is worked through all the way down to its root, without being stopped in the middle because the talk therapy catharsis ended.
You are absolutely right! There are plenty of jobs women can do in the military, fighting on the front lines is not one of them!
I am sorry for what happened to you, although I am glad to hear he is dead. He cannot hurt you or anyone else anymore and I hope that helps you heal in some way.
See The Killing Fields movie. It still lingers in my mind today.
God bless, Megan
It sounds very effective. And an interesting technique.
I sure wish you hadn’t posted this. Things are ugly enough.
I think the real point of allowing gays in the military is more sinister. The democrats hate them so bad that they want them on the front lines just like woman.
I hope I’m wrong but why else would democrats do this?
bkmk
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