Committee, i appreciate the opportunity to discuss Va Mental Health care, and i certainly want to acknowledge the loss and the courage of these family membe members, ensuring that this wasnt in vain, and i struggle with the severity of the stories. As an infantryman who lost so many in the iraq war and injured and struggled with the loss of suicide from chronic pain and other injuries, i just thank you all for being here. My experience with the Va Health Care system began in 2008. Sorry. Its okay, youve got plenty of time. After i was medically retired from the army due to severe injuries from a mortar blast in iraq excuse me. Ive been a patient but im also an advocate for other warriors who are struggling with deploymentrelated traumas. For a period of about 12 months, i did receive excellent Mental Health care at a va facility. It provided easy onestop access through Deployment Health models staffed by Mental Health, pharmacy and social work providers. Unfortunately, though, hospital
Part of what i do through the ministry im in is providing support groups through the chaplains channels. So ideal with this very closely on both sides. Medication is no longer being used as a tool to subdue the symptoms while we work on the deeper issues. No. What does the va do . The va specifically utilizes medication to control it and keep them, suppress the symptoms without working on the deeper issues. Thank you. Please. Brian was never put on any medication. Only for his back when he had that problem. Okay. Yes. Clay was on quite a bit of medication. As i said, he felt like a guinea pig, constantly being begin something different. Do you think they chose medications in lieu of therapy . Sure. Oneonone therapy . Yes. The only oneonone therapy that he spoke of that seemed to be effective at a certain point in l. A. He went to a vet center and had a counselor there that he really liked and felt he finally found somebody he to talk with. Okay. From Daniels Point of view, i think part
The second person, john tylers second wife, but at least during the time, even though she did not come to the white house, she did use her influence to get appointments for her nephews and sons and grandsons, so she would have been political in that way but not the way he would think the second person, john tylers second wife, but at least during the time, even though she did not come to the white house, she did use her influence to get appointments for her nephews and sons and grandsons, so she would have been political in that way but not the way he would think of with someone like julia tyler. Which we will learn more of tonight. And this comment, she must have had good genes. What was going on in the Harrison Family that it produced so Many Political leaders . They were one of the first families of virginia, so you would have had them be involved in the revolution. They have a long history of political involvement. I think it is where they are located by the mid 1800s in the northw
Hope we can all do. Not only improving that helped but also educating the country to know that there is treatment for that and they can be great contributors to society and the workplace. We thank you very much for those thoughts. We leave it up to you to connect those dots and help others as well. [applause] friday he attends ceremonies in normandy, marking the 70th anniversary of the dday invasion of world war ii. Russian president Vladimir Putin is also scheduled to be at the ceremonies. House hearing on programs to help veterans returned to civilian life. Then, former president george h. W. Bush is honored. After that, q and a with author brett the behr. The soviet system in Eastern Europe contained the seeds of its own destruction. Many of the problems that we saw at the end again at the very beginning. I spoke about the attempt to control all institutions and control all parts of the economy and political and social life. One of the problems when you do that, when you try to cont
Focused on the cost, societal cost to our country and to the population. These extraordinary young men and the promise that they held going to haiti and making a difference right here. I want to focus in because i think from your experience you can really help the va and the dod to understand what could make a difference. I want to commend you all with the specificity of your recommendations. In particular, ive been trying to understand best practices, and whether there is any effort or known groups or the types of medications that are helpful, have any of you in any of your discussions, whether within the va or since then, the experience you had meeting with people, have any of you come across any effort to share best practices with the transition, particularly around pts and tbi and just the trauma, how we can help people coming back from this level of trauma . Maybe we can start with the sergeant, if youre aware of any types of programs that are effective. Thank you, maam. There are