Mental Health Month

Mental Health Month

Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho discusses mental health and resiliency with Army family members during a family forum at the 2012 Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C., Oct. 22, 2012.

Emotional pain is real, the Army surgeon general told a group of soldiers, family members and family readiness group leaders Oct. 23.
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Former N.F.L. star Herschel Walker speaks with Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune‘s Department of Mental Health.

“I was angry. I had no fear. I felt no pain. You couldn’t stop me,” said Walker. “But I was doing things I didn’t remember.”
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Most service members experience normal reactions to the stressors of war. These are adaptive behaviors, which generally decrease, even cease, when service members return home. However, when these reactions interfere with a person’s ability to return to “the way things …
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Bobby and his wife noticed that they were fighting more often after he developed PTSD. Both of them came to understand that living with PTSD would require new methods of coping and reaching out for help, because they couldn’t do …
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Sgt. Johnny Magnum shares his story about struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his unique method for coping and overcoming it in the hope that it inspires and helps others to seek assistance. By Sgt. Justin Kuhl, AFN Europe ———- …
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