Psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists practice a subjective pseudo-science and consider everything to be a mental health problem ending in disorder. I think a much more sane approach would be to change the context from mental to physical and from disorder to disabling injury and deal with the effects of Combat Stress from an objective clinical standpoint.
Claim assessment & determination seeks to avoid the dental, personnel and full service medical records of the individual. Incompetent judgments from a partial picture.
Even under the Freedom of Infomation Act asking about number of those affected when in Herrick and Telic, the refuse to give you the answer and no one in government (MP) are strong enough to get the truth. As one who has been suffering mental health episides since 1993 a year after discharge, then for... [show more]
Even under the Freedom of Infomation Act asking about number of those affected when in Herrick and Telic, the refuse to give you the answer and no one in government (MP) are strong enough to get the truth.
As one who has been suffering mental health episides since 1993 a year after discharge, then for the rest of the 90's on so much prescribed medication, I lost the decade of the 90's, I can concur that no one in high office is remotely interested in those the MoD have broken in their military service. [show less]
By including all personnel, those no where near the front line, those in support who don't see action, those behind their desks and those underground in their holes for example.
Veteran mental care 'inadequate' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8160294.stm "Care offered by the NHS to military veterans with post traumatic stress disorder is "a spit in the ocean", the head of the charity Combat Stress says." ^^ I totally agree, but why do people in charge always wait until... [show more]
"Care offered by the NHS to military veterans with post traumatic stress disorder is "a spit in the ocean", the head of the charity Combat Stress says."
^^ I totally agree, but why do people in charge always wait until they are leaving or have left before speaking up?
"He says six community NHS mental health pilot schemes are inadequate and may end up providing patchy service."
^^ I know about inadequacies within the Scottish mental health pilot, "Veterans' 1st Point" of FAILURE and I know the existence of these pilots' is likely to lead to a "reduction in funds" for Combat Stress.
I'm sorry, but a Charity dependent financially on the MoD is a Charity with a conflict of interests. In the same document (below) you'll find Combat Stress require a person to be "funded", which brings into question their actual charitable status. This was such before the current level of demand.
The MoD fund someone hoping for a report that the individual has shown a temporary improvement after a partial application of snake oil (no full treatments), not because the Mod care for that person's welfare, but because they want to reduce their compensation bill.
"The Department of Health says it is working hard to provide adequate care."
^^ They always say they are working hard, but working hard doesn't mean a job will be done properly and that's why Veteran mental care is 'inadequate'. Blighted Veterans' deserve the best care, not adequate care!
I believe the NHS will leverage their proven incompetence and their own creepy crawly (their psych's) to ensure much stays buried, but being cash strapped themselves, I expect them to make the MoD pay through the nose.
To survive, I think Combat Stress should shed it's creepy crawly (who'll no doubt go scuttling off to the NHS) and it's pseudo science and bring real Doctors and real science to bear on the problem.
No screening to determine if PTSD had a role to play. Conveniently this is grounds for health care and entitlements deprivation. Some go to jail where their welfare is overlooked.
I was invited back to Combat Stress for 10 day's starting at the begining of next month. However, I turned them down. My reasons are simple: after my first visit of 5 days, I came home more depressed and suicidal. All my boxes were openned by the team at Combat Stress and let open. I will never allow that to happen again....
First things first. Suicide serves no useful purpose, because it has so far brought about little or no change, which is what we are about. Each time I'm in that frame of mind I prefer turning on the MoD rather than on myself, that way I know they are getting the message.
Over the course of years I estimate I've spent a full day talking to CS, trying to figure out why they kept me at arms length. Their excuse was that they needed the MoD to fund my treatment, which brings into question their charitable status. The MoD have of course been refusing to process my WPA, so last year Poppy Scotland kindly stepped in and offered to cover the cost, but by that time I had CS figured out so I declined, considering it a waste of money.
IMHO, CS have an absolute conflict of interests and a dependency on MoD money that drives them to show results. To put it bluntly, if CS report a "temporary" improvement (subjective) from a "partial treatment" of their MoD funded pseudo-scientific snake-oil, which pretty much will be them suggesting upon you that you feel better, then the MoD will act to reduce or remove or deny a War Pension payment.
If the MoD do not fund the so called treatment, then a report will be sent to your GP, where the MoD may be able to access it, if you allow them. CS told me I had no say in where a report went and that I could not refuse, which I know to be completely wrong. In theory though, the MoD could bypass your GP simply by making enquiries of CS. They can do this, because the WPA gives them carte blanche consent to do what they want behind your back.
What a terrible experience for you. You haven't said what they invited you for, but I'm guessing it was some form of individual or group therapy. Did they not explain that therapy takes time to be effective or that "opening boxes" is a painful process which can make you feel worse before you feel better?
There are all sorts of ways of treating the effects of trauma and not all of them involve reliving the experience. Indeed, some people are never ready to "process" what's happened to them, but there are still things which might help them to feel better. To me, it's all about quality of life and if you are still depressed and suicidal then I'm guessing the quality of yours is pretty rubbish right now.
It's hard when you feel like that to care about anything and to care for yourself is even harder, but there are small things you can try which might help to lift your mood and when that happens it gives you a little opening, a little glimmer of hope that things might get better and sometimes that's all you need.
Here are some things which might help:
- Be kind to yourself. No matter how hard it might be, give yourself a break, you deserve it.
- Eat well. If you're not eating much at all or you eat a lot of processed junk food try to introduce some healthy things slowly - a piece of fruit a day is an easy way to start.
If you don't already cook for yourself, give it a whirl. Cooking can be really relaxing and whilst you're concentrating on the stove, you may be less troubled by other thoughts. If you've never cooked before try Oliver's Ministry of Food - easy and delicious!
- Go out and get some fresh air everyday. Even if you only make it into the garden, you will feel better for being outside in fresh air. Try not to think about what you're doing, but feel it instead. Feel the warmth of the sun on your skin, listen to the birds and see the colours around you.
You may find this quite difficult to begin with, because it requires you to be "present" and that can be frightening. Try to stick with it and if you start to feel anxious stamp your feet on the ground and focus on the connection between your feet and the ground and the here and now.
- If you need to talk to someone, you can always call the Samaritans 08457 90 90 90. You can tell them what you like and they will listen. They don't offer advice, but they help you to feel less alone.
I hope when you read this you're in a better place than when you posted your comment. If not, I hope this has helped you.
"Common law compensation claims for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ( PTSD ) in relation to Service Personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan" - so far!
"TFT has also undergone considerable “field testing” in the most challenging of situations. In October 2001, for example, Dr. Shkelzen Syla, Chief of Staff with authority over all medical decisions in Kosova, officially adopted TFT as the treatment of choice for those with PTSD in the region. This followed a 100% successful supervised clinical trial."
So why isn't Thought Field Therapy (TFT) being trialled for UK Veterans? Because practitioners (like myself) cannot afford to fund the clinical trials, and the NHS/MoD seem reluctant to look at anything without it already been 'proven' via clinical trials...
One potential answer.
I've volunteered to treat a few forces personnel or veterans who have been diagnosed with PTSD - for FREE. This is in conjunction with the Thought Field Therapy Foundation UK who aim to amass enough 'evidence' for submission to the NHS/MoD.
There is no such thing as an effective psychotherapy and no psychotherapist (unregulated in UK) can back their case with scientific evidence.
My guess is that you have never fought in a real war and that you are abusing the power of persuasion.
Please provide peer reviewed scientific evidence to the country. Oh, wait, you can't. You somehow think that all you need to do is treat a few people and that will be proof positive.
Thanks for the abuse. Soz if my wanting to help offends your bias against psychotherapy.
You're right: while a RM Commando for 10 years, I managed to miss the Falklands by being too young (still 17 years old) and the Gulf due to putting in my notice over 18 months before it started... so I've never been in a real war...
I can only hope the drug therapies, and CBT (the only NICE approved psychotherapy in the UK) will really help veterans in need... and if they don't... you're suggestion is we wait for a drug-company (the only ones with enough money to do the peer reviewed clinical trials you want to see before attempting anything new...) do a U-turn on their profit-making ways and fund treatments that may actually help people.
Funny how someone who puts as much dedication, commitment and loyalty into their new career as they did in training to be a front line professional can get called a snake-oil peddler abusing the power of persuasion...?
Anyway, you can have the last word. I'll NOT be back.
I pride myself in being someone who gets results - hence all the training I've had in the last 15 years - of which TFT has proven to be one of the most effective tools I use with clients.
I'm really not interested in trying to empower those who prefer to be RIGHT than healthy in mind & body.
The topic is entitled How do the MoD bury PTSD, you are not contributing to that topic in a constructive way, and despite the clear anti-pschiatry bias you chose to peddle something unproven by science which you believe to be 100% effective at treating PTSD. It surprises me that you are not by now a millionaire able to fund your own clinical trails.
You talk of abuse, but psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy (aka the creepy crawly) have a pitiful history of abuse and if you were a person that truly wanted to help then you would not choose an abusive subjective pseudo-science over objective clinical science.
I do not agree with the NICE clinical guidelines and I have not suggested we wait for drug companies. I don't even agree with a mental health label being assigned to PTSD given it is a normal reaction to circumstances outside the realm of normal human experience, albeit with serious consequences.
I do not see PTSD as a disorder, but as a progressive disease and if you care to look at the cardiovascular manifestations of PTSD http://www.nmanet.org/...s/OC642.pdf and read about a condition called Soldiers Heart http://members.westnet...agarian.htm then you might begin to get a feel for what is needed and why and in time you might understand that clinical diagnosis can be made objectively without resort to the creepy crawly that covets the pharmaceutical industry.
The fundamental reason suffers are being let down is because combat PTSD has been left in the hands of the creepy crawly and they have failed to make a difference, therefore, I advocate a clinical approach and now, because there's a tidal wave of combat induced PTSD on the horizon.
Don't mistake my passion for bitterness, distractions of the type you advocate may be well intentioned, but if you are not open to my science then you are the one that's seeking to be right and in need of a u-turn.
You are welcome to stay, and have you say on other topics, but please respect the aims of this forum and don't spam snake oil.
The idea that PTSD is treated purely as a mental "disorder" seems misguided to me because it has so many associated physical symptoms - insomnia, muscle tension, raised heart rate, hypertension, headaches. It's also so outdated to think of the body as a separate entity to the mind - the two are inextricably linked, as PTSD clearly illustrates. A holistic approach to treatment seems a much more useful way of looking at this condition. In my own experience, a combination of psychotherapy and massage has proved very effective in managing symptoms. In real terms that means this approach can help to improve quality of life. Surely, whatever side of the conventional/complementary medicine fence you sit, improving quality of life has to be the ultimate goal of all work in this area.
I'm not registered but email [removed by Admin] if you'd like any more info. Thanks, Kimberley
OK point taken Mr Moderator, no more health stuff on this topic.
As a civilian, I'm afraid I can't answer how the MoD buries PTSD, but I don't doubt for a minute that they do their utmost to minimise the number of reported cases because a long term, debilitating condition like PTSD would cost them a small fortune in payouts. It would be a much better scenario if I meant they try their hardest to ensure soldiers don't get PTSD in the first place, but sadly I don't believe that.
It's self-evident that you can't answer and that you don't understand, yet you think it appropriate to market a solution based on psychotherapy and massage which I am certain you can't backup with peer reviewed objective scientific evidence from tightly controlled clinical trials run by scientists and physicians.
A much better scenario is that you become less ignorant along with others that do not suffer by paying more attention to the content of this Forum. Once you've done that you'll no longer be oblivious to why your like provoke a strong response.
1. Why has it been left for CS to deal with mental illness suffered by veterans?
2. What is the government doing to address the increase of serving soldiers and veterans with mental illness due to their service history?
3. How will the SPVA give a % of disability to those with mental illness....what will be scale and how will it work?
4. And last of all: What is the long term Aim - and Objectives of CS /MoD and SPVA towards funding of treatment for those suffering from mental illness due to service life?
1. In-service military creepy crawly don't treat mental health as such, they discharge people said to be suffering from said or in war time they place them back in harms way. This leaves them ill equipped post service to attempt treatment like they do at CS. In this forum I have outlined the conflicts of interest CS have with the MoD and how they can move forward and do some good using physicians instead (see above).
2. Gov/MoD/NHS set up 6 mental health pilots with creepy crawly at the controls. CS are of the opinion they are not suitable. These pilots are a first point of failure for Veterans and I personally do not like the fact that they are fronted by ex-servicemen to leverage persuasive power.
3. The assessment and determination of awards is secret and opaque I'm endeavoring to make transparent.
4. The long term aim of the MoD et al. will be to find new ways to bury PTSD.
If combat induced PTSD is a normal reaction to circumstances outside the realm of normal human experience that every normal person can be expected to have then it cannot be a mental illness since it would affect anyone and everyone that is normal.
It is a progressive and eventually disabling injury, not a disorder. A creepy crawly will only give a subjective opinion, but it is possible for it to be clinically diagnosed by physicians, which is infinitely more preferable and since creepy crawly have no effective treatment it makes sense to start exploring PTSD solutions from an objective clinical standpoint using physicians who mostly prefer not to access mental health services.
CBT is recommended by NICE because it is a cheap way to dupe people into believing they are better, not because it is effective. It is a "therapy" that relies on susceptibility to being influenced and it is applied to all and sundry. Government are rolling it out as a way to further control the population and remove benefit and entitlement (not just Veterans); what government wants is often the last thing you need!
Freedom of Information request asking for "any and ALL training and information given to potential and actual recruits regarding Combat trauma and Combat induced P.T.S.D." commented on by yours truly.
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I was invited back to Combat Stress for 10 day's starting at the begining of next month. However, I turned them down. My reasons are simple: after my first visit of 5 days, I came home more depressed and suicidal. All my boxes were openned by the team at Combat Stress and let open. I will never allow that to happen again....
First things first. Suicide serves no useful purpose, because it has so far brought about little or no change, which is what we are about. Each time I'm in that frame of mind I prefer turning on the MoD rather than on myself, that way I know they are getting the message.
Over the course of years I estimate I've spent a full day talking to CS, trying to figure out why they kept me at arms length. Their excuse was that they needed the MoD to fund my treatment, which brings into question their charitable status. The MoD have of course been refusing to process my WPA, so last year Poppy Scotland kindly stepped in and offered to cover the cost, but by that time I had CS figured out so I declined, considering it a waste of money.
IMHO, CS have an absolute conflict of interests and a dependency on MoD money that drives them to show results. To put it bluntly, if CS report a "temporary" improvement (subjective) from a "partial treatment" of their MoD funded pseudo-scientific snake-oil, which pretty much will be them suggesting upon you that you feel better, then the MoD will act to reduce or remove or deny a War Pension payment.
If the MoD do not fund the so called treatment, then a report will be sent to your GP, where the MoD may be able to access it, if you allow them. CS told me I had no say in where a report went and that I could not refuse, which I know to be completely wrong. In theory though, the MoD could bypass your GP simply by making enquiries of CS. They can do this, because the WPA gives them carte blanche consent to do what they want behind your back.
Dear Hitback,
What a terrible experience for you. You haven't said what they invited you for, but I'm guessing it was some form of individual or group therapy. Did they not explain that therapy takes time to be effective or that "opening boxes" is a painful process which can make you feel worse before you feel better?
There are all sorts of ways of treating the effects of trauma and not all of them involve reliving the experience. Indeed, some people are never ready to "process" what's happened to them, but there are still things which might help them to feel better. To me, it's all about quality of life and if you are still depressed and suicidal then I'm guessing the quality of yours is pretty rubbish right now.
It's hard when you feel like that to care about anything and to care for yourself is even harder, but there are small things you can try which might help to lift your mood and when that happens it gives you a little opening, a little glimmer of hope that things might get better and sometimes that's all you need.
Here are some things which might help:
- Be kind to yourself. No matter how hard it might be, give yourself a break, you deserve it.
- Eat well. If you're not eating much at all or you eat a lot of processed junk food try to introduce some healthy things slowly - a piece of fruit a day is an easy way to start.
If you don't already cook for yourself, give it a whirl. Cooking can be really relaxing and whilst you're concentrating on the stove, you may be less troubled by other thoughts. If you've never cooked before try Oliver's Ministry of Food - easy and delicious!
- Go out and get some fresh air everyday. Even if you only make it into the garden, you will feel better for being outside in fresh air. Try not to think about what you're doing, but feel it instead. Feel the warmth of the sun on your skin, listen to the birds and see the colours around you.
You may find this quite difficult to begin with, because it requires you to be "present" and that can be frightening. Try to stick with it and if you start to feel anxious stamp your feet on the ground and focus on the connection between your feet and the ground and the here and now.
- If you need to talk to someone, you can always call the Samaritans 08457 90 90 90. You can tell them what you like and they will listen. They don't offer advice, but they help you to feel less alone.
I hope when you read this you're in a better place than when you posted your comment. If not, I hope this has helped you.
Best wishes,
AmmaTouchTherapist
In an interesting twist, it appears MoD PR may have a conscience:
MoD Spin Doctor sues for disability discrimination
http://veterans-uk.ws/answer/103/
This campaign site is the place for them to become reacquainted with the truth.
Interesting FOI on PTSD:
http://www.whatdotheyk...oming-38401
"Common law compensation claims for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ( PTSD ) in relation to Service Personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan" - so far!
http://www.whatdotheyk...OI.doc.html
Royal College of Physicians: Fears about confidentiality put off doctors from accessing mental health services
http://www.politics.co...$365674.htm
^^ Get rid of the creepy crawly and use objective science instead and you get rid of the stigma.
Quote from the NHS Directory website at http://www.nhsdirector...age=TFT&t=y
"TFT has also undergone considerable “field testing” in the most challenging of situations. In October 2001, for example, Dr. Shkelzen Syla, Chief of Staff with authority over all medical decisions in Kosova, officially adopted TFT as the treatment of choice for those with PTSD in the region. This followed a 100% successful supervised clinical trial."
So why isn't Thought Field Therapy (TFT) being trialled for UK Veterans? Because practitioners (like myself) cannot afford to fund the clinical trials, and the NHS/MoD seem reluctant to look at anything without it already been 'proven' via clinical trials...
One potential answer.
I've volunteered to treat a few forces personnel or veterans who have been diagnosed with PTSD - for FREE. This is in conjunction with the Thought Field Therapy Foundation UK who aim to amass enough 'evidence' for submission to the NHS/MoD.
Contact via website: [ removed by Admin ]
This site is a creepy crawl free area.
There is no such thing as an effective psychotherapy and no psychotherapist (unregulated in UK) can back their case with scientific evidence.
My guess is that you have never fought in a real war and that you are abusing the power of persuasion.
Please provide peer reviewed scientific evidence to the country. Oh, wait, you can't. You somehow think that all you need to do is treat a few people and that will be proof positive.
You snake oil is not wanted here.
Thanks for the abuse. Soz if my wanting to help offends your bias against psychotherapy.
You're right: while a RM Commando for 10 years, I managed to miss the Falklands by being too young (still 17 years old) and the Gulf due to putting in my notice over 18 months before it started... so I've never been in a real war...
I can only hope the drug therapies, and CBT (the only NICE approved psychotherapy in the UK) will really help veterans in need... and if they don't... you're suggestion is we wait for a drug-company (the only ones with enough money to do the peer reviewed clinical trials you want to see before attempting anything new...) do a U-turn on their profit-making ways and fund treatments that may actually help people.
Funny how someone who puts as much dedication, commitment and loyalty into their new career as they did in training to be a front line professional can get called a snake-oil peddler abusing the power of persuasion...?
Anyway, you can have the last word. I'll NOT be back.
I pride myself in being someone who gets results - hence all the training I've had in the last 15 years - of which TFT has proven to be one of the most effective tools I use with clients.
I'm really not interested in trying to empower those who prefer to be RIGHT than healthy in mind & body.
Be well
Colin Ellis
The Self Improvement Coach
The topic is entitled How do the MoD bury PTSD, you are not contributing to that topic in a constructive way, and despite the clear anti-pschiatry bias you chose to peddle something unproven by science which you believe to be 100% effective at treating PTSD. It surprises me that you are not by now a millionaire able to fund your own clinical trails.
You talk of abuse, but psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy (aka the creepy crawly) have a pitiful history of abuse and if you were a person that truly wanted to help then you would not choose an abusive subjective pseudo-science over objective clinical science.
I do not agree with the NICE clinical guidelines and I have not suggested we wait for drug companies. I don't even agree with a mental health label being assigned to PTSD given it is a normal reaction to circumstances outside the realm of normal human experience, albeit with serious consequences.
I do not see PTSD as a disorder, but as a progressive disease and if you care to look at the cardiovascular manifestations of PTSD http://www.nmanet.org/...s/OC642.pdf and read about a condition called Soldiers Heart http://members.westnet...agarian.htm then you might begin to get a feel for what is needed and why and in time you might understand that clinical diagnosis can be made objectively without resort to the creepy crawly that covets the pharmaceutical industry.
The fundamental reason suffers are being let down is because combat PTSD has been left in the hands of the creepy crawly and they have failed to make a difference, therefore, I advocate a clinical approach and now, because there's a tidal wave of combat induced PTSD on the horizon.
Don't mistake my passion for bitterness, distractions of the type you advocate may be well intentioned, but if you are not open to my science then you are the one that's seeking to be right and in need of a u-turn.
You are welcome to stay, and have you say on other topics, but please respect the aims of this forum and don't spam snake oil.
The idea that PTSD is treated purely as a mental "disorder" seems misguided to me because it has so many associated physical symptoms - insomnia, muscle tension, raised heart rate, hypertension, headaches. It's also so outdated to think of the body as a separate entity to the mind - the two are inextricably linked, as PTSD clearly illustrates. A holistic approach to treatment seems a much more useful way of looking at this condition. In my own experience, a combination of psychotherapy and massage has proved very effective in managing symptoms. In real terms that means this approach can help to improve quality of life. Surely, whatever side of the conventional/complementary medicine fence you sit, improving quality of life has to be the ultimate goal of all work in this area.
I'm not registered but email [removed by Admin] if you'd like any more info. Thanks, Kimberley
This forum is not a billboard for pseudo science! http://veterans-uk.ws/announcement/6
OK point taken Mr Moderator, no more health stuff on this topic.
As a civilian, I'm afraid I can't answer how the MoD buries PTSD, but I don't doubt for a minute that they do their utmost to minimise the number of reported cases because a long term, debilitating condition like PTSD would cost them a small fortune in payouts. It would be a much better scenario if I meant they try their hardest to ensure soldiers don't get PTSD in the first place, but sadly I don't believe that.
It's self-evident that you can't answer and that you don't understand, yet you think it appropriate to market a solution based on psychotherapy and massage which I am certain you can't backup with peer reviewed objective scientific evidence from tightly controlled clinical trials run by scientists and physicians.
A much better scenario is that you become less ignorant along with others that do not suffer by paying more attention to the content of this Forum. Once you've done that you'll no longer be oblivious to why your like provoke a strong response.
Why America (and UK for that matter) Has To Address Post-Combat PTSD
http://www.furiousseas...t_ptsd.html
We need to understand several areas.
1. Why has it been left for CS to deal with mental illness suffered by veterans?
2. What is the government doing to address the increase of serving soldiers and veterans with mental illness due to their service history?
3. How will the SPVA give a % of disability to those with mental illness....what will be scale and how will it work?
4. And last of all: What is the long term Aim - and Objectives of CS /MoD and SPVA towards funding of treatment for those suffering from mental illness due to service life?
Regards
Hitback
P.S CBT has been a great help to me.....!
1. In-service military creepy crawly don't treat mental health as such, they discharge people said to be suffering from said or in war time they place them back in harms way. This leaves them ill equipped post service to attempt treatment like they do at CS. In this forum I have outlined the conflicts of interest CS have with the MoD and how they can move forward and do some good using physicians instead (see above).
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2. Gov/MoD/NHS set up 6 mental health pilots with creepy crawly at the controls. CS are of the opinion they are not suitable. These pilots are a first point of failure for Veterans and I personally do not like the fact that they are fronted by ex-servicemen to leverage persuasive power.
3. The assessment and determination of awards is secret and opaque I'm endeavoring to make transparent.
4. The long term aim of the MoD et al. will be to find new ways to bury PTSD.
If combat induced PTSD is a normal reaction to circumstances outside the realm of normal human experience that every normal person can be expected to have then it cannot be a mental illness since it would affect anyone and everyone that is normal.
It is a progressive and eventually disabling injury, not a disorder. A creepy crawly will only give a subjective opinion, but it is possible for it to be clinically diagnosed by physicians, which is infinitely more preferable and since creepy crawly have no effective treatment it makes sense to start exploring PTSD solutions from an objective clinical standpoint using physicians who mostly prefer not to access mental health services.
CBT is recommended by NICE because it is a cheap way to dupe people into believing they are better, not because it is effective. It is a "therapy" that relies on susceptibility to being influenced and it is applied to all and sundry. Government are rolling it out as a way to further control the population and remove benefit and entitlement (not just Veterans); what government wants is often the last thing you need!
CBT superiority questioned at conference
http://www.uea.ac.uk/m...+conference
PTSD Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.military.co...s/ptsd-faqs
Overall the data on those who go on to develop PTSD is flawed, because it is not restricted to those who have had to fight for their lives.
CCHR on Psychiatry: No Science, No Cures (YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com...ure=channel (
Freedom of Information request asking for "any and ALL training and information given to potential and actual recruits regarding Combat trauma and Combat induced P.T.S.D." commented on by yours truly.
http://www.whatdotheyk...going-32901