Study Points at a Clear-Cut Way to Diagnose PTSD

For all the attention focused on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in recent years, doctors have never had a clear-cut way to be certain a patient has it. But Minnesota scientists now believe they have found a long-sought PTSD fingerprint that confirms the disorder by measuring electromagnetic fields in the brain. The finding, detailed in the latest issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering, could help the 300,000 cases of PTSD that are anticipated among the 2 million U.S. troops who have gone to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics WE NEED A HERO....WE NEED BARACK OBAMA...YES WE CAN!!!!!!!!

This country needs change and it needs to be soon. People are overwhelmed, you might ask what does that have to do with this blog? Programs are being cut to the bone miminal people cant get the help they need, their pain has to be put on hold because our government was taken over by individuals that didnt respect the seats they were elected to by the peoples' instead they filled their pockets with the money that was for america programs. They hired their family and friends and filled their pockets with that money, and now those monies were mismanaged and those seats became important again because they were now losing the life of being healthy, not stressing over if they need to see a doctor. They dont have to worry about getting their utilities shut off or being able to put gas in the the tank for work, or therapy appointments or medications that you have to have but then have to choose which ones you can do without until you can figure out how you can get the money to get the ones that your docotor said you needed to be healthy and stable and able to feel happiness. That affects me, you and this nation of people that have been stressed out with programs being cut, food prices rising and heating cost at it highest. It affects us becuase less police will be on the streets because the government now has to save money this will mean more cases on our social services systems and less money to help domestic viloence, to help child abuse and longer times between the time the abuse takes place and the time it gets attention. Can the United States of Amercia face the conesquences when these services are lost. We need to be able without distraction injected, utter these three words freely YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN ....PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING WORDS PLEASE JOIN A COMMON MAN WHO WILL LEAD US IN HEALING. THIS IS THE TIME THAT OUR NATION HAS TO RISE AND JOIN TOGETHER AS ONE NATION UNDER GOD indivisible, with liberty and justice for all....VOTE THIS NOVEMEBER AND VOTE FOR WHAT YOU WANT THIS COUNTRY TO BECOME IT'S TIME TO WRITE THAT SECOND CHAPTER....

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It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can. It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballots; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can to justice and equality. Yes we can to opportunity and prosperity. Yes we can heal this nation. Yes we can repair this world. Yes we can. We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. (We want change.) We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics…they will only grow louder and more dissonant ……….. We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check. We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. Now the hopes of the little girl who goes to a crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of LA; we will remember that there is something happening in America; that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation; and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast; from sea to shining sea: Yes We Can.
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The Freedom Writers Diary: A Book Review

The Freedom Writers Diary: A Book Review

In 1999 a miraculous story was told by Erin Gruwell and her English classes from Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. The idea for the story came from the experiences of these inner-city students as they realized the power of the written word and its healing nature. Gruwell was a young, new English teacher and was given the students that no other teacher wanted. She never blinked and started trying to make a difference in their lives. She came from an upper class family and went to all the best schools as she grew up not too far from the world of her students. Her students, on the other hand, lived in gang-infested areas where the family structure was less than desirable.

The idea of making a book of her students' diary entries came to fruition about a year into her time at Wilson High School. Her students were opening up to her in the form of their diaries and the subjects they were writing about were frighteningly personal. Many of her students wrote about the sexual abuse they endured and many of the stories revolved around relatives as abusers. Gruwell had always thought stories like these came from far away places, but now her students that she had grown so close to were relaying these horror stories. She knew she had the responsibility to make their lives better and the Freedom Writers project was the perfect outlet for them and her.

The Freedom Writers is a takeoff from the Freedom Riders in the 1960s that brought together white and black people together to fight racism. They were inspired by Rosa Parks and began riding buses together from Washington D.C. to the Deep South. Gruwell's students were so inspired by this story that they were compelled to carry on the name as they began writing. The classes were as diverse as the buses and the students knew that their shared experiences bound them together.

The recurring theme of child abuse was one that kept coming up in the diary entries and the students that wrote so freely about their experiences began to enjoy a cathartic process. As you read their entries you don't know their names or what they look like, and that doesn't matter. Their identities were protected but you connect with each student on such a personal level that names would just be labels. It's their story that you need to know and it's amazing that a group of high school students that were never given much of a shot to excel in anything have come together to produce this wonderful book.




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