| July 28, 2010 to September 11, 2010 ONLY OPEN ON SATURDAYS no new clients during this time. I will be working at Fort Bragg, NC with soldiers and their families returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| YOU ARE NOT ALONE! The effects of war on soldiers has been known for centuries. In 1678, a Swiss physician coined the term "nostalgia" to mean a soldier's fear that he would never see his homeland again. Other early diagnoses included soldier's heart, battle hysteria, fatigue, and exhaustion. Baron van Swieten, in his 1776 volume "The Diseases Incident to Armies with the Method of Cure," notes that “the soldier fresh lifted, and torn at once from his family, no sooner loses sight of his village, but he becomes melancholy; and tho, [sic] a robust husbandman, finds himself scarce able to bear the fatigues and inconveniences of a military life” As the technology of war became deadlier soldiers were affected more and more by what they experienced. WWI saw the use of the word, "Shell Shock" and modern medicine has developed concepts of the emotional diseases of war. In WWII it was the practice to keep soldiers who could return to battle as close to the front as possible. Keeping soldiers in the battle seemed to help them be ready to return to combat when they were physically able. This continued on to Korea and Vietnam. I have seen the immediate affects of combat trauma. When I arrived at a hospital in Tokyo in early 1970 one of the soldiers in the hospital with me was so battle scared that he would not let anyone near him. We all tried to help him, to let him join our group of recovering soldiers. I do not think we were ever able to help. He never joined us at the NCO club or any where else. He hovered around us like a helicopter coming into a hot LZ, but never able to actually land. I have often wonder just what happened to him in the past 38 years. I hope he has gotten better, found some kind of peace. When I got to Walter Reed Army hospital we raced down the inclined halls in our wheel chairs. I am hoping to begin a Veterans Discussion Group perhaps Thursday evenings between 5:30PM and 6:30PM, the group will be one hour long. I do not yet have a beginning date. There are links and other helpful information on the pages below: Please call me at 734-9870 Email me at Preston@insight-therapy.net Fax me at 638-4909 |
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. Ulysses S. Grant |
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| WAR IS HELL, COMBAT on the other hand is a real mother. Sanitized version of a Vietnam Solders saying. ******** "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. " - Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist, ca. 1466-1536 |
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