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But Veterans have been on this prescription opioid trajectory for years ~ and on this Veteran's Day, Veterans suicide has caused more U.S casualties than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the same reasons. See ICH story ~ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43387.htm
“But veterans experts estimate that 17 of the 22 daily suicides involve vets not enrolled in the VA's health care system, suggesting more research — and far greater funding — will be necessary to get a handle on the problem.”
No amount of psychiatric drugs can ease that psychic burden and even Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s No. 2 officer, who has long been an advocate for soldiers suffering from the invisible wounds of war (such as PTSD and TBI) ~ also advocates the need for other alternative approaches ~ ” I want to understand what drugs we should use to treat these symptoms, if we should use any drugs at all. I want to look into alternative pain management. We are finding there are other ways to handle pain that are more effective and allow a person to feel a lot better than throwing a bagful of drugs at them.” See http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05/23/unsaid-issue-behind-veterans-rising-suicide-rate-is-shame-based-guilt/
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) says that rather than continually send heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, it is time for lawmakers to investigate the connection between prescription psychiatric drugs and violence, including suicide.
Here's an excerpt from their excellent recent wake up call to law makers ~
” The military long has been aware of the increasing number of military suicides and last August released the findings of the Department of Defense (DOD) 2013 Study title “Risk Factors Associated With Suicide in Current and Former US Military Personnel.
Colonel Bart Billings ~ a clinical psychologist with a 34 year military career in both active and reserves ~ speaks out regarding the growing evidence of psychiatric drugs, over medication and violence as well as the VA's refusal to deal with the situation. See this important 8 minute video and article ~ http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/04/prweb11735195.html
But there is a proven Heart Centered approach to PTSD which I have both facilitated over the past five years as well as mentored the past year as a heart centered volunteer ~ a program which concentrates on gratefulness and forgiveness and focuses on self-healing versus medication.
For my whole life, all 81 miraculous years, I have sensed a great truth and actually felt it as a young child ~ that deepest within us is love and that all-consuming love is connected to everything we see and all of nature.
When I was taken away from my grandfather at 6 years old my heart closed and it became a buried treasure that I spent much of my life looking for. It was only when I totally surrendered to love and eventually the pain of seemingly losing it, that I fell into a rabbit hole of love, joy and soul consciousness (the Unified Field) beneath that pain ~ along with a growing awareness of my eventual part in this universal loving plan whose principle property is the urge to unite.
It was the same life and death Final Option that I experienced as a Naval Aviator in 1960 and I again fully surrendered to a timeless all-knowing and fearless place of soul consciousness which lay beneath my deepest fears, pain and beyond time and space. See the Final Option ~ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/11/the-final-option/
In my role as a heart centered life coach ~ I meet my clients from a place of celebration and service and invite them to take their turn!
Initially, each one of these participants complete a Life chart ~ a chart which clearly shows their whole life, relationships and war or life experience as a Quest or journey to eventually find themselves.
From our very first session, they begin the process of thanking the people who have been there in their lives and as they do ~ like flowers, their buried or numbed out hearts begin to open allowing them to see through different eyes.
They all have access to these self-healing steps in my updated Kindle Book RADICAL THERAPY, SURRENDER TO LOVE AND HEAL YOURSELF IN SEVEN SESSIONS (not seven years). Here is the Kindle link http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Therapy-Surrender-Yourself-Sessions-ebook/dp/B00JGE5VQE
Most people are not aware that you do NOT need a Kindle to read an Amazon eBook. You can download a free program from Amazon called Kindle for PC, and read it on your computer. Link below:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/kcp-landing-page?ie=UTF8&ref_=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd
And here's a link to the YouTube Skype sessions of the self-healing process I teach ~ Watch, in the first 20 minutes of session five, how Marina conquers her deepest fear by going through itand she demonstrates that beneath her pain and fear is boundless joy.See video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r12MoNnwPKg&feature=youtu.be
Make no mistake about this self-healingprocess ~ for my clients are healing themselves through their homework and action. I touch them from a place of celebration and service and I'm not afraid of their deepest fears for I know and demonstrate that beneath that level of pain and aloneness is a Unified Field of love, joy and celebration as well as their authentic vocation within a universal loving plan.
In my work, as a consultant and heart centered life coach, with clients with PTSD or PTHD ~ I concentrate, with great success, on them opening their hearts ~ initially through gratefulness toward the people and friends who have been there for them and finally to giving and accepting love themselves. They eventually forgive themselves in the process of opening their hearts as well as begin to see through different eyes ~ and medication becomes no longer their only option or escape from America's growing tragedy.
The power and truth of a heart centered approach to self-healing has withstood ridicule and then opposition within the VA and medical pharmaceutical community ~ but it is now fast approaching the stage where its acceptance and value are self-evident.
Allen L Roland, PhD
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