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http://www.defence.gov.au/health/DMH/PTSD_DVD.htm
Dents in the Soul
Full 30 minute DVD
DVD dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Frightening and overwhelming traumatic experiences can have a strong impact on your mind and emotions. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is an anxiety disorder and is one of a range of psychological reactions you can have to a traumatic incident. PTSD can be distressing with negative consequences for your health and wellbeing. It can affect anyone, but there is help available.
Army, in conjunction with the Directorate of Mental Health, Defence Publishing Service and Singer Songwriter Mr John Schumann, have produced a DVD designed to address stigma, offer support and raise awareness of the issues surrounding PTSD for Army personnel and their families. Featuring Army members who share their own experiences with PTSD, the DVD supports the important message of ‘look after yourself, your mates and your family.’
This 30-minute mini documentary aims to de-stigmatise PTSD and to show that it can potentially happen to anyone who has been exposed to a traumatic event. Developing symptoms of post traumatic stress after exposure to trauma is not a sign of weakness – it is simply being human.
Recovery rates from PTSD are high but early diagnosis and treatment are particularly important. Generally, the longer the symptoms persist, and go untreated, the longer the eventual recovery will take and the greater the disruption to the person’s work, family and enjoyment of life.
Singer Songwriter John Schumann, who wrote ‘I Was Only 19’, is the narrator of the DVD and helps walk viewers through diagnosis, treatment and effects of PTSD on individuals and their families. John Schumann also shares his personal experience with PTSD in the DVD.
Mental health specific DVDs for both Navy and Air Force will be developed in 2011.
Dents in the Soul Video
Dents in the Soul
Full 30 minute DVD
DVD dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Frightening and overwhelming traumatic experiences can have a strong impact on your mind and emotions. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is an anxiety disorder and is one of a range of psychological reactions you can have to a traumatic incident. PTSD can be distressing with negative consequences for your health and wellbeing. It can affect anyone, but there is help available.
Army, in conjunction with the Directorate of Mental Health, Defence Publishing Service and Singer Songwriter Mr John Schumann, have produced a DVD designed to address stigma, offer support and raise awareness of the issues surrounding PTSD for Army personnel and their families. Featuring Army members who share their own experiences with PTSD, the DVD supports the important message of ‘look after yourself, your mates and your family.’
This 30-minute mini documentary aims to de-stigmatise PTSD and to show that it can potentially happen to anyone who has been exposed to a traumatic event. Developing symptoms of post traumatic stress after exposure to trauma is not a sign of weakness – it is simply being human.
Recovery rates from PTSD are high but early diagnosis and treatment are particularly important. Generally, the longer the symptoms persist, and go untreated, the longer the eventual recovery will take and the greater the disruption to the person’s work, family and enjoyment of life.
Singer Songwriter John Schumann, who wrote ‘I Was Only 19’, is the narrator of the DVD and helps walk viewers through diagnosis, treatment and effects of PTSD on individuals and their families. John Schumann also shares his personal experience with PTSD in the DVD.
Mental health specific DVDs for both Navy and Air Force will be developed in 2011.
Dents in the Soul Video
