{"id":30504,"date":"2012-06-24T09:24:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T13:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30504"},"modified":"2012-06-24T09:24:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T13:24:17","slug":"doc-bailey-how-i-survived-crippling-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30504","title":{"rendered":"Doc Bailey: How I Survived Crippling PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Doc Bailey writes at his own blog, the Madness of a Combat Medic, about his trip back from the edge after his deployment during the surge in Iraq. As you probably know, this is a big issue with me, and I think that the key to helping the recent war veterans through their adjustment back to productive civilians resides in each of us &#8220;old timers&#8221; who&#8217;ve made that adjustment. Doc <a href=\"http:\/\/themadmedic.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/how-i-survived-crippling-ptsd.html\">contributes to that process<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know it really wasn&#8217;t until I got to the WTB that I really knew what a &#8220;flashback&#8221; was.  I had had training in methods of reducing or treating Combat Stress, I could recite all the symptoms of Acute Stress Reaction in my sleep.  As a Medic, I was the one stop shop for all the medical needs for 35 men.  I had a reference book (a very good one that I still have) that I carried with me for anything that I couldn&#8217;t fix right away.  I could tell you all the methods of alleviating the inevitable stress that would come from combat losses.  None of that knowledge or reference material helped me a damn when I was the one that needed help. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should <a href=\"http:\/\/themadmedic.blogspot.com\/2012\/06\/how-i-survived-crippling-ptsd.html\">read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our own Doc Bailey writes at his own blog, the Madness of a Combat Medic, about &hellip; <a title=\"Doc Bailey: How I Survived Crippling PTSD\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30504\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Doc Bailey: How I Survived Crippling PTSD<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}