Not discounting some might help I've been very skeptical of the rush to find and use drugs for the symptoms of PTS, especially this past decade using them on active duty soldiers and sending them back into these theaters for another tour. But to me the use of these rapidly developed drugs for instant magical cures of everything has always been a problem I've watched this society fall into, be they legal especially, for huge profit, or illegal. But alas at least greater majorities of people are finally realizing what brings on PTS, after some forty years of fighting to get it understood, not only for combat veterans but the civilian populations as well. Much better then the handful, in a highly populated world, that have been waging the fight to understand this. Maybe we'll better understand the human brain now but once born we are programed as we grow and learn the total opposite of the world we exist in from living in war zones, they're not movies and drama's we watch nor some sporting event, as well as individual traumatic life experiences many live through, to me that's the key to better understanding that I don't see drugs miraculously curing.
January 16, 2012 - Everyone has nightmares sometimes. But for people with PTSD, it's different. Sam Brace doesn't want to talk about what he saw when he was a soldier in Iraq eight years ago. In fact, it's something he's actively trying not to dwell on. But what he can't control are his dreams.
They're almost always about the same explosion. "When I was overseas, we'd hit an IED," Brace says. "When I have a nightmare, normally it's something related to that."
Healthy dreams seem kind of random, according to Steven Woodward, a psychologist with the National Center for PTSD at the VA Medical Center in Menlo Park, Calif. "They're wacky," he says. "They associate lots of things that are not normally associated."
PTSD dreams are the same real-life event played over and over again like a broken record. "Replicative nightmares of traumatic events ... repeat for years," Woodward says. "Sometimes 20 years." read more>>>
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