June was PTSD Awareness Month. Here is info that demonstrates that we have much to do in our PTSD awareness efforts â including outreach to PTSD suffers. Who are our PTSD suffers?
A Google search will provide this information: âPrevalence of PTSD in Veterans â In one major study of 60,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, 13.5% of deployed and nondeployed veterans screened positive for PTSD,12 while other studies show the rate to be as high as 20% to 30%â
Another study suggests that 1 in 10 veterans who served in Vietnam â more than 283,000 people â experienced PTSD symptoms four decades later.
PTSD is not only something that happens to our veterans and first responders. Here is info from an article published on Drexel.edu by their news officer, Rachel Ewing discussing a study, authored by Jonathan Purtle, DrPH, an assistant professor at the Drexel University School of Public Health.
Monday 17 May 2021
A few years ago, as I sat overlooking the harbour in Sydney – I was living there and working at Time Out – an Italian chef, upon clocking my Glaswegian accent, looked at me and said, ‘Scotland? Great produce! But you don’t know what to do with it.’ This, I realised, feeling suddenly pale in the Australian sun, is the global reputation of Scottish cooking. Sure, our produce is world-renowned – salmon, shellfish, whisky – but there is little faith that we, as Scots, know what to do with our own bounty.
Ethical Shellfish Company boat
It is, of course, nonsense. The people have known how to cook with their country’s wares for millennia – culinary craft has been honed throughout historic invasions, waves of immigration and the spice laden kists of imperialism – but somehow so-called Scottish cuisine has left us with haggis and tatties, deep-fried fish (we don’t talk about the other deep-fried thing) and chicken Balmoral. Glasgow chef Grant Reek
Debbie Goodwill particpates in the knitting and crocheting club at the OâNeill Center. Linda Stengel knits a project at the OâNeill Center. She is part of the knitting and crocheting club. Linda Stengel works on an Easter craft at the OâNeill Center in Marietta Kristi Bartlett works on her latest crocheting project at the OâNeill Center in Marietta. Debbie Goodwill, Linda Stengel and Nancy Matheny get supplies ready to work on Easter craft projects
Debbie Goodwill, Linda Stengel and Nancy Matheny get supplies ready to work on Easter craft projects
Safe activities are in full swing at the O’Neill Center and for some, it is the first opportunity for safe fellowship since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jessie Siefert, right, Managing Director of the Parkersburg Art Center, delivers pottery project supplies to Kerry Patrick, left, Transportation Coordinator with the O’Neill Center. (Photo Provided)
PARKERSBURG The Parkersburg Art Center is striving to raise community spirits and keep area seniors engaged in artful pursuits during the continued isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Thursday, art center staff prepared and delivered a care package of art and art materials for sheltering seniors who receive meal delivery through a program at the Belpre Senior Center. Funding for this project, which will continue through the spring, has been provided by the Belpre Area Community Development Foundation.