PTSD IS GROWING IN AMERICA! WHAT IS IT AND DO YOU HAVE IT

➡ Dave Hodges, host of The Common Sense Show, discusses the benefits of Nanosoma products for health issues and then delves into the topic of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He explains that PTSD is a response to extremely distressing events, leading to negative reactions to stress, feelings of hopelessness, and sometimes suicide. PTSD can be triggered by reminders of the traumatic event and can affect people differently depending on their age and experiences. He emphasizes the need for therapy if symptoms persist for months and criticizes the over-reliance on medication in treating PTSD, advocating instead for teaching adaptability and problem-solving skills.
➡ Cognitive behavioral therapy is a great way to handle stress and potential PTSD, especially in tough economic times that can strain our mental health. It’s important to remember that medication isn’t always the first solution, and we should explore other options. Also, don’t forget to sign up for our daily newsletter at thecommonsensure.com for a recap of all our activities. Yesterday’s newsletter was missed due to a medical emergency, but it will continue as usual from today.

Hello, America! Dave Hodges here, host of The Common Sense Show. We are the show that’s freeing America, one enslaved mind at a time. And I’ll tell you what we’re freeing you from also, too, are the pain and the debilitating illnesses that can follow us by using the Nanosoma products. They have a three-pack, 15% off. And I wanted to feature one of the products here, too. This is the Metasomer Gel, and this is what I use to put on my joints, and it’s how I overcome bone-on-bone right knee pain. Where I was clearly headed for, well, I was going to have the knee replaced, and I was fighting against that.

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It doesn’t cure anything, but it boosts your immune system. And you can find out more about these products by going to Iwantmyhealthback.com slash Dave Hodges. I want myhealthback.com slash Dave Hodges. We have something by request. I’ve had people write to me, and I’ve mentioned post-traumatic stress disorder a few times over the last couple of months. And we have a lot of people in our country that have this, and some of them are combat veterans, but not all, in fact, not most. And I wanted to go through, and people said, Dave, tell us more about PTSD. You got a background in mental health.

You could really assist people with this. And so I’m going to break it up into different parts, though, because it’s too extensive to cover all at once. And so what I thought I would do in this part would be the symptoms of PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. And first of all, you say, well, what is that exactly? Okay. Well, there are extremely upsetting events that are outside the norm of what we deal with. And sometimes it forces us into maladaptive panic response. And this becomes a pattern. And so when we have stress, we react negatively. It can result in effects on diet, mood.

It can absolutely affect your self-esteem. And it can incite feelings of powerlessness and hopelessness. And people say, do PTSD people commit suicide? Sometimes. I don’t know what the frequency is anymore. I haven’t read recent data. But anything that induces hopelessness is a predictor of suicide. Hopelessness is the best predictor of suicide. It’s not depression. It’s hopelessness as a standalone characteristic. And it’s normal to have upsetting feelings and memories. Feel on edge. Have trouble sleeping after a bad event. But at first it may be hard to do normal activities. Give yourself some grace. That happens. Some people have trouble with school.

Some people have trouble interacting. It’s difficult. And so you say, well, who are the people we’re talking about? Well, what we popularize most in our society are people who have been either in combat or in situations that they can’t escape that are very, very bad. Health events can induce this as well, too. But if this goes on weeks on into months, it’s time to seek therapy. What are some of the characteristics that you see with PTSD? Well, some people have what we call complex traumas, and it’s complex PTSD. And what that means is that many factors come together to help form what we call maladaptive or inappropriate responses to the stress.

And we often overreact to a normal event in a day that takes us back and reminds us of things. Let me give you an example. There are trauma reminders. So you might have, okay, maybe somebody was raped on February 1st of 2024. And then cycle forward, it’s February 1st of 2025. The anniversary effect can trigger more distress and more maladaptive responses. It’s called the anniversary reaction. It’s not uncommon. You see it with people, too, that have been through a traumatic divorce or they’ve lost a loved one. This was the day a year ago I lost a child.

I had a spontaneous miscarriage. I mean, these are all things that add to this. Sometimes there are trauma reminders and triggers. You could be walking down the street with someone who’s a combat veteran and they hear a motorcycle backfire and they dive under the nearest car. They’re reliving the combat experience because of the noise that stimulates those memories for this is what I do when my life is in danger. And people look at it and go, how weird does that guy know? It’s a response the person hasn’t been able to decouple from their present life with loud noises to what they went through in combat.

And it’s just an example. Sometimes you have what we call very young trauma survivors. Sometimes PTSD has its roots in childhood. And trauma and abuse can have impact on the very young. The attachment or bond between a child and a parent, okay, matters as the child grows. And this bond contains maladaptive things, not normal conflict, but really negative abusive criteria. A child can grow up with, this is how I respond to the world. I over-respond and then sometimes you get into a personality disorder that we call paranoia. You’re looking at the environment in terms of potential threats.

And there is paranoia involved in PTSD at various levels. One of the things I think people need to know is that trauma affects school-age kids a lot more and a lot differently than adults. If one’s diagnosed with symptoms of PTSD in children and teens, this is all-encompassing because they haven’t developed a response repertoire to handle all the stress that comes at them. So they tend to handle stress in the same way. They either tremendously underreact and don’t respond to a stressor in the way most people would and deal with it, or they overreact and they get some into some trouble sometimes.

We see this too with combat veterans, and it’s interesting some of the research that came out following the Vietnam War, where PTSD really began to surface. After World War II and the Korean War, we used to call it combat fatigue. I don’t think psychologists really understood what they were looking at, but by the time the Vietnam War was over, we understood post-traumatic stress. So sometimes what do these soldiers do? Unable to cope with normal life that brings back triggers of memories and when their life was in danger every day, they become homeless.

And often they become homeless by choice because it minimizes challenges in their mind that they have to deal with that they don’t feel they’re prepared to deal with. And it’s tragic, and oftentimes we have a really high suicide rate with our veterans. Twenty-one a day was the latest figure I’ve read. That’s horrendous because they can’t tune out the noises. This can affect you with your eating. It can certainly cause insomnia. And there are cases where repatriated combat veterans will actually attack their spouse in the middle of the night because of the nightmares that PTSD can cause, and they’re reacting in an aberrant way that doesn’t reflect the situation they’re in.

And then sometimes these couples have to sleep separately. This leads to marital issues. I mean, it’s really something that people need to be dealing with. What we see with PTSD in veterans are Holocaust survivor groups of whatever Holocaust and whatever country people are in. We see very similar criteria. We call it the effect on the neuro-vegetative habits. Sleeping, eating, calm in the absence of really high stressors. Neuro-vegetative is almost always affected by PTSD. And it can become all-encompassing where they can’t focus on sorting out details of their life and meeting challenges individually.

It’s one broad response, which is a panic mode. And it’s really, really, really upsetting when you look at this. PTSD is hard to define in terms of when is a normal stress reaction that goes on for a period of time? When do you have to get help moving beyond it? You know, someone loses their partner, you know, their spouse dies, and they go months, four, five, six months, and they’re withdrawn, they have nightmares, they don’t feel like eating. When you get into the months issue, then it’s time to get help getting through the trauma.

And getting through the help is something I’ll cover a little later, but I’m going to leave you a teaser. I said this in the comment section when someone asked me, well, unfortunately, in America today, everything’s about medicines, and the first reaction, if you’re referred to a psychiatrist, you’re going to take these pills to calm you down. Yeah, it might give you a zombie-like approach and you’re not overreacting to stimuli in the environment, but it teaches you nothing about adaptability, problem solving, learning to differentiate what’s a threat and what’s not a threat and how to appropriately respond to a nonthreatening situation that might be upsetting, but it’s certainly not threatening your life and should not provoke an overreaction.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is really good at dealing with this. Now, I’m not saying you should never take medication, but it shouldn’t be the front line of defense unless the symptoms are severe. And I always have to give this warning because Big Pharma wants everybody on drugs, whether they need them or not. Anyway, I’ve given you a lot to think about. We are going to look at more PTSD, and here’s why. Whenever you have a nation, as we’ve had, go from, I can meet my family’s basic needs to where we’re cutting out a meal a day because our economy sucks.

I don’t know what the prospects of jobs are, if I can keep my job because the economy sucks. I can’t keep up with inflation. Things we used to be able to enjoy to do, we can no longer afford, so it cuts in the quality of family life. And when you’re repetitively exposed to stress that adds up cumulatively, it can result in PTSD. It doesn’t always, but it can. And I’ve given you some of the things to look at in terms of this, and I’m telling you, cognitive behavioral therapy, first line of defense, and we’ll cover that in more the next time we cover PTSD.

And I’ve been asked to say, Dave, with your mental health background, you should be providing shows like this so people can realize that they have options and they’re not stuck in their own mental health prison. I agree with that. And I probably should bring this to bear, and I’ll do a better job of giving these issues more attention than I have previously. Thank you for the suggestion for the people who’ve written that to me. Make sure you check out our newsletter, thecompensenshow.com. All you’ve got to do is go there, go to the newsletter link, put in your email address, and then you’ll receive an email every day that’s a recapitulation of everything we’ve done in the previous 24 hours.

People go, Dave, it’s so convenient. It’s nonstop. It’s one-stop shopping. There’s no mystery. Everything is right there that you do. Thank you so much for doing the newsletter. By the way, if you didn’t get one yesterday, it’s because we put nothing out. Yours truly, as I announced earlier, had the sheer joy of a four-hour passing of a kidney stone, and they didn’t do some of the intervention techniques. They could be really invasive, and so I just kind of white-knuckled it through until it was over. Now, they had disagreement. What caused Dave to have this? Was it a kidney stone? Was it a spastic bladder? All these theories.

I think because of the quick cessation of pain that I had went from 10 to 1, I passed a kidney stone, and one medical professional agreed, two others who treated me that day did not agree. It was a kidney stone, and I got to tell you, it’s the worst feeling I’ve ever had. Don’t wish it on anybody. So, newsletter didn’t go out yesterday, but it’s going out today. It’ll go out tomorrow. It’ll go out the next day, and if I don’t have any more physical trauma for a while, you’ll get it every day.

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