Overcoming Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Process Begins With Becoming Functional

Your Life After Trauma - a new radio show brings survivors and professionals together to talk about overcoming trauma. Tonight's topic is learning to function again. End Quote

West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, FL (1888PressRelease) June 23, 2011 - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can rob a person of the very will to live and prevent a trauma survivor from moving on to creating a meaningful future. PTSD symptoms including flashbacks, avoidance, desensitization, hyper-arousal, and insomnia interfere on a daily basis with a trauma survivor's ability to function; they are unable to hold down a job, have healthy relationships, and/or demonstrate appropriate self-care. This week, Your Life After Trauma addresses the issue of functionality with an all-new episode on Thursday, June 23rd, 7pm EST, on Seaview Radio (95.9AM/106.9FM/960AM).

According to Your Life After Trauma host, Michele Rosenthal, "The main goal of every survivor is to overcome symptoms of PTSD. For some that means learning how to manage symptoms; for others that means eliminating them completely. No matter the final quest, every survivor wants to know how to become more functional in daily life. Discovering tools for this makes it more easy to cope which, in addition to increased functionality, develops more courage, strength and focus for the work of recovery, too."

Your Life After Trauma brings weekly support and information to trauma survivors, plus their caregivers and healing professionals on Thursday nights from 7-8pm EST, on Seaview Radio (95.9AM/106.9FM/960AM) in southeast Florida (and streaming live online) (http://www.healmyptsd.com/your-life-after-trauma). Your Life After Trauma provides resources, inspiration, hope and specific actions to help anyone learn to formulate a recovery plan, access healing potential and apply personal strengths to post-trauma recovery.

Featuring expert and survivor guests focused on topics related to the experience of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and post-trauma life, Your Life After Trauma future topics include:

· June 23rd - 'Trauma Recovery: What It Takes To Be Functional'
· June 30th - 'Terrorism and Tragedy: One Man's Personal Story'
· July 7th - 'The Role of the Caregiver: Triumphs and Pitfalls Of Managing Life After Trauma'
· July 14th - 'Yoga and PTSD Recovery'
· July 21st - 'Stress & Massage'
· July 28th - 'How to Start a Revolution of You'

Each show features a professional and personal perspective, plus spontaneous call-ins so that listeners can ask their questions, talk to an expert, and receive personal recommendations around specific issues.

For more information about Your Life After Trauma, visit:
http://healmyptsd.com/education/your-life-after-trauma

This week's guests will be:

Rev. Dr. (Chaplain) Chrys L. Parker, J.D. is a clinical chaplain, clergywoman, lawyer, pastoral counselor and trauma therapist specializing in the spiritual and psychological care of PTSD experienced by individuals as a result of combat, critical burn injury and sexual assault. She is Executive and Clinical director of the Burn Recovery and Research Foundation in San Antonio, Co-Founder of the Army Spiritual Fitness Initiative, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She is a postgraduate instructor of combat and medical chaplains for the Pastoral Training Office of the U.S. Army Medical Command Center and School of Allied Sciences, and trains Army Chaplains at military posts throughout the nation. Rev. Dr. Parker is also an instructor of military, medical and mental health professionals. With Dr. Harry Croft, she has written a new book, I Always Sit with My Back to the Wall, the definitive recovery guide book for soldiers and their loved ones impacted by post-traumatic stress disorder. Even in its formative phases, the book began serving as the consummate "field guide" to PTSD management for US Army Chaplains under her instruction.

Keith Hudson, a veteran of the British Army from Knowsley, England has lived with PTSD for over thirty years. Keith joined the British Army when he was just seventeen years old. During his military service, Keith went to Northern Ireland from April 1973 to May 1974 and was stationed in Omagh where he and his family were living in Army housing. During that tour he lost 2 good friends. It was the first garrison where the army families homes were damaged by a car bomb. The first was in the summer of 1973. Then in May 1974 a car bomb was left outside the Army Carriers Information Office on the Derry Road approximately 80 yards from Keith's home. This is when Keith's nightmares began.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is a wholly treatable condition that results from a life-threatening experience in which the trauma survivor felt helpless. PTSD symptoms include insomnia, nightmares, flashbacks, emotional numbing, hyperarousal and hypervigilance.

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