This is the 8 minute Youtube video on TLT, PTSD with Erica Kennedy, Bernadette Grove, and John Grove, October 2018
8 minutes
October 2018
Every 65 minutes that passes a US veteran commits suicide. That’s roughly 20 veterans a day and Over 7,000 veterans a year.
The nightmares, they would all be panic related. You wake up in the cold sweat sort of thing. Sometimes I wouldn’t even remember what it was that I was dreaming of.
I struggled with depression and eating disorders, cutting, from the time I was about 14 my PTSD got so bad that I thought I was developing dementia?
Just gonna make some dots on your forehead..
We got John’s eyes protected with stainless steel goggles. and this is a very high powered neuro-infrared laser; 3 or 4 fans cooling him down s in a real time temperature monitor
I’d just got out of the air force close to six years. . I’ve got deployed twice down range. Iraq Ali Al Salem and then I also went to Qatar
John comes to us from South Dakota, I’ve been dealing with nightmares 4, 5 years after my service ended
I’ve been just trying to get re-integrated back into society
so how are you doing Bernadette?
Really good today. The focus is back…clarity is awesome…I have no brain fog this morning which is huge
I was with the Army National Guard for 8 years and my highest rank was an E4, quite a few people confided in me. It was astounding how many of them had encountered sexual assault while they were overseas.
I am desperate to get treatment. I’ve been a treatment failure in just about every modality
I have a Psychology PhD. A pretty good academic Pedigree Ivy league, I had a promising research career at one point and love working with patient specially severe mental in-patients I haven’t been able to do that for about 10 years. Anything would trigger me, anything that would reminded me of my childhood trauma or childhood abuse or the abuse with my ex husband
It’s been difficult integrating back into society. I was having issues focusing, it was something that I noticed since I got out. I’m more of a fast paced person. ever since I got out, It’s been slower pace for me, .. everything felt slowed down.. so my focus was a little dulled out too.
They have tried all different kinds of therapy from talk therapy to drug rehabilitation therapy and nothing seemed to be helping..
everything I’ve been getting from from everybody treating me had been mostly medications and a pat on the back John, he went from being this big personality with so much drive and so much potential to just being a shell of himself on the medications that the VA suggested for him. It was just heartbreaking to see how little treatment and care was given to him after everything that he’d given to serve his country.. he gets home and there’s really nothing that they can do for him.
Transcranial laser therapy.
We laser the front of the head and we laser the side of the head..the laser goes in through the skull and goes into the cortex. Based on some research studies that were published about two years ago, to get the full extent of the laser’s therapeutic benefit, you might need as much as a 100x the dose its been used in the past. We’re in about 3 times the dose and I think even higher doses would be more therapeutic.
John you’re doin okay?
It just makes me more relaxed and it’s .. it’s just a nice warm feeling.
I haven’t had any nightmares for the past 24, 25 days since the treatment have started. Day 4, Day 5 I noticed that I wasn’t having anymore nightmares.
The treatments have definitely made me have a lot clearer view on my path
So this treatment has just been incredible…the things that it has managed to help him with as far as you know sleeping and he’s off one of his highest dose medications. It’s affecting my life in a positive way. I’m back on track.
Hello. John nice to meet you.
we deal with veterans I have my whole Career . you know 47 + years back in Vietnam as mental health officer its a national information and crisis center hotline for all veterans we get about 12 to 13 thousand calls a year these young vets coming out really have no idea how to REINTEGRATE and that deals with PTSD or the signature wound in this 2 wars Traumatic Brain injury TBI and thats a physical injury to the brain PTSD is an emotional injury to the brain , the symptoms are almost parallel.
This Procedure is state of the art corporate America needs to get involved they need to fund billions of dollars. We don’t know how to treat it and I’m trained in several modalities but this is very different. Its very new, Im very excited
How long have you been dealing with the pschychological pain
Ive been dealing it since i was about 13 to me was just … nothing short of a miracle..
since I started the laser treatments, I’ve been able to focus on kind of set a goal and stick with it and finish more than I planned on doing each day and that’s huge for me.
I’m actually doing the final edits on the second book that I have written and I’ve edited a hundred and forty-three pages in the last week and before that would have taken me months, 2 months
This has been one of the most incredible gifts that I’ve been given in my adult life.
We are just really hopeful that this is gonna be a wonderful treatment for me.
I could not remember what year it was,
We tried every single modality eastern, western..everything alternative, pscyhotropic meds, psychodynmaic theraphy, cbt of course but still daily anxiety so bad, last 3 years I haven’t hardly left the house at all.
I have at least 30 nightmares a week including night terrors where I would wake up screaming. I would have nightmares of like children being vivisected or apocalyptic dreams and the terror from those would last for days, I was a zombie
How was everything after the last treatment?
Fantastic!
It just feels like a brain massage so going from bed ridden for the last 3 years within the FIRST treatment my family notice a huge difference after the second treatment then I noticed I was interested in showering and dressing.
After the THIRD treatment it was a pure miracle, instead of 4 or 5 horrifying nightmares a night I had ZERO and I slept 8 hours that night with no medication, once we’re done with the treatments I can’t wait to get back home, get a job,
I would recommend this to every single person, who needs to get over a trauma of any kind I more than recommend it, I BEG it.
Seeing what it’s done for him even in just the last month had just been amazing.
If something as little as 15-20 treatments no drugs no side effects just improvements then it needs to be out there it needs to be done and it needs to be given to our men and women that have serve their country.
There’s millions of them and they are suffering, its the sun on your face with your arms spread out, looking up to the sky, Not being a zombie hiding under the bed anymore, you don’t have to hide from those memories anymore
I would say run here, don’t think about it , don’t walk , RUN! get here tomorrow, this will give your life back, run, run here please.