A letter from a participant in the Iraq Vets PTSD Study:

I was a soldier and served my country faithfully for seventeen years.  During that time, I lost three wives, two children to watch grow, was sliced with a knife 4 times. I suffer from nightmares of burnt bodies, and I suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress. 

After my medical discharge in 2003, I returned to West Virginia to find that my now ex-wife had become addicted to crack. I had no home, car, or anything to call mine.  Friends tried to help but unfortunately my pride would not allow for that.  While attending my first semester at Marshall University, I slept on benches for two months until I saved enough money to secure an apartment.

While in the service, I was a Staff Sergeant and held the positions of both squad leader and platoon sergeant.  After my separation, I was lost and unsure of the future.  I was depressed and at one point suicidal. My dreams are of burnt bodies talking to me and to this day the smell lingers in my mind causing me to vomit.  I don’t sleep for fear of dreaming and sometimes when I do fall to sleep; my final thought is will I wake in the morning or will all this finally be over.

Recently I participated in a study administered by Dr. Linda Geronilla (Marshall University) funded by Soul Medicine Institute, that uses Energy Psychology to help.  I see the improvement within myself.  I have learned to control the vomiting, I’ve increased my sleep, and the anxiety attacks have lessened.  I hope that other vets will find help and do so faster than I did.  It took a long time for me to realize that asking for help does not make me weak.

The Iraq Vets Stress Project is an initiative of Soul Medicine Institute (SMI), a nonprofit research and teaching institution not affiliated with the government or any religious group. SMI studies a group of therapies called Energy Psychology, which have a proven track record in releasing emotional trauma. You can click here to read the story of a Vietnam vet with PTSD who had not been helped by years of conventional therapy, but whose symptoms disappeared dramatically and quickly after treatment with Energy Psychology. And here, you can read a story of an Iraq vet who used Energy Psychology (TAT) for the first time, and his results.

You can read a story of a therapist who is using Energy Psychology to treat veterans and others suffering from PTSD.

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