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    • 31 Ratings
    • 39055 Views
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    Marines Urinating on Corpses—What the Video Doesn’t Show

    JANUARY 13, 2012 1:11PM

    By Annie Keeghan


    Topics: trauma, ptsd, combat, war, news

    • 35 Ratings
    • 14317 Views
    • 54 Comments
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    Psych Ward Stories (I): "I'll kill you, I'll kill you!!"

    JULY 19, 2009 7:04PM

    By grif -


    Topics: psych unit, psychiatry, schizophrenia, bipolar, manic depression, suicide, homicide, alzheimer's, ptsd, eating disorders, ocd, alcoholism, drug addiction, thorazine, there is always hope no matter how severe an illness, caring for thosw with mental disorders

    • Editor's Pick
    • 66 Ratings
    • 10697 Views
    • 118 Comments
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    A Survivor's Take on: "The Trauma Myth" by Susan A. Clancy

    JANUARY 22, 2010 7:44AM

    By Sparking


    Topics: ptsd, sexual abuse, trauma, news, feminism, books, open call, susan a. clancy, the trauma myth

    • 13 Ratings
    • 9456 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    The Women of Afghanistan: What You Can DO

    AUGUST 3, 2009 9:25AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: hope, afghanistan, iraq, news, feminism, ptsd, loss of rights, human rights, things you can do to help

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 7793 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    Michelle Duggar to receive Mother of the Year award

    APRIL 21, 2010 10:31AM

    By Vyckie Garrison


    Topics: advanced training institute of america (atia), angelina jolie, ati, baby conference, baby conference: a historic family summit on the triumph of life over the culture of death, betrothal, big happy family, bill gothard, buddy system, character sketches, child abuse, child neglect, children are a blessing, christian families, christian motherhood, coercive religious groups, courtship, doug phillips, fundamentalism, homeschooling, hypocrisy, jackson duggar, jana duggar, jennifer duggar, jessa duggar, jill duggar, jim bob duggar, jinger duggar, josie duggar micro-preemie, kathryn joyce, ladies tea time, michael pearl, michelle duggar, mom of many, mother of the year award, post traumatic stress disorder, psalm 127, ptsd, quiverfull, quiverfull daughters, quiverfull: inside the christian patriarchy movement, quivering daughters, titus 2 woman, to train up a child, trusting the lord with family planning, vision forum, woman's submission, feminism, no longer quivering

    • 107 Ratings
    • 5253 Views
    • 110 Comments
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    Why I Love My Breasts Today

    MAY 24, 2010 3:30AM

    By Sparking


    Topics: sexual abuse, trauma, dissociation, ptsd, sex trade of children, open call, health, family, cults, belief/religion, he didn't win, finding love within at any cost, the pain which shaped me, breast reduction, breasts, trauma recovery, brainwashing

    • 39 Ratings
    • 5208 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    What Is A Man?

    MARCH 1, 2009 8:15AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: politics, news, family, grief, the dead, lorraine berry, dirigo, paul reickhoff, iava, funerals, war, afghanistan, iraq, ptsd

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 4938 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    The Military, Mental Health Services and Suicide Statistics

    JULY 26, 2010 11:38AM

    By Donna Carbone


    Topics: ptsd, tbis, traumatic brain injury, army wives, lifetime television, iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, tim embree, marie cocco, sgt. george bell, federal government, rand corporation, substance abuse and mental health services administration, marines. veterans administration, air force, navy, army, army and air national guard and reserves

    • 26 Ratings
    • 4305 Views
    • 52 Comments
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    Getting Beat Up at School—by the Teachers UPDATE

    DECEMBER 17, 2009 10:26PM

    By o'stephanie


    Topics: manufacturing bullies, ptsd, links to orgs pro and con, parental rights, children's civil rights, texas and missisppi are the worst, what is it with the south?, human rights watch, corporal punishment

    • Editor's Pick
    • 35 Ratings
    • 4103 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    PTSD is a Feminist Issue

    FEBRUARY 6, 2009 7:46AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: politics, news, health, veterans' affairs, lorraine berry, injury, afghanistan, iraq, ptsd, shinseki

    • Editor's Pick
    • 81 Ratings
    • 4096 Views
    • 88 Comments
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    My Father's Death Threat

    MARCH 24, 2010 2:34PM

    By Sparking


    Topics: rage, unconditional love, love, god, redemption, killing, wanting to kill my father, dissociation, ptsd, emdr, that's what this work feels like, two lies and a truth of my life, which way is up?, repressed memories, losing my non-religion, when violence permeates the heart, true story, open call, family, belief/religion

    • 3 Ratings
    • 3556 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    PTSD, Handle With Care.

    FEBRUARY 9, 2009 11:59PM

    By Snap


    Topics: veteran health, children, families, women, military, open call, ptsd, veterans, calendar

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 3429 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    R.I.P. 'Weasel'

    JUNE 16, 2010 4:59PM

    By Nurse Sphincter


    Topics: vietnam, death, politics, war, army, ptsd, violence

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 3308 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Rape Trauma and the Aftermath

    JANUARY 10, 2011 12:13PM

    By Hayley Rose


    Topics: sexual assault, healing, ptsd

    • 59 Ratings
    • 3259 Views
    • 70 Comments
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    (explicit) Are You There, God? It's Me, The Crippled Fag.

    MARCH 10, 2010 11:26AM

    By Amanda Gulledge


    Topics: open call, health, gay/lesbian, belief/religion, humor, politics, billiards, political correctness, disability rights, pain, writer, queer, fag, cripple, disability, spina bifida, arthritis, anemia, circumcision, depression, ocd, ptsd, placebostudman

    • 22 Ratings
    • 3242 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Scylla and Charybdis of PTSD

    MARCH 9, 2009 9:04AM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: television, health, politics, news, family, grief, the dead, lorraine berry, dirigo, paul reickhoff, edward r. murrow, jessica sarandrea, iava, funerals, war, afghanistan, iraq, ptsd

    • Editor's Pick
    • 66 Ratings
    • 3184 Views
    • 63 Comments
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    The Greatest Generation that Never Was

    JANUARY 31, 2011 6:18AM

    By cartouche


    Topics: egypt, egyptian uprising, social media, twitter, political unrest, jay leno, jaywalking, cairo, hosni mubarak, al jazeera english, reuters, janet napolitano, homeland security, color code alert, terrorist threats, jay leno, jaywalking, white house press briefing, robert gibbs, president obama, berlin wall, fall of the berlin wall, mother tiger, joe dimartino, military, combat, ptsd, veterans affairs, tunisia, mohammed bouazizi, president zine el abedine ben ali

    • 30 Ratings
    • 3050 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Charlie's Private War

    JULY 17, 2009 4:45PM

    By Michael Rodgers


    Topics: life, torment, flashbacks, vetrans, war is hell, fiction, ptsd

    • Editor's Pick
    • 32 Ratings
    • 2960 Views
    • 53 Comments
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    My Daughter is on Zoloft

    MARCH 5, 2011 1:33PM

    By caroline marie


    Topics: adoption, ptsd, anxiety, zoloft

    • Editor's Pick
    • 66 Ratings
    • 2951 Views
    • 74 Comments
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    Standing in the Schoolyard Screaming

    FEBRUARY 4, 2010 2:15PM

    By Sparking


    Topics: open call, feminism, family, belief/religion, dissociation, ptsd

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