532: A Veteran Fights to Be Free from Smack and PTSD | Feedback Friday
Jul 9, 2021
A veteran battles heroin addiction and PTSD, delving into the intertwined nature of these challenges with insights on emerging treatment options, including psychedelic therapies. Relationship dilemmas arise as a listener grapples with a long-term partner's aversion to marriage, prompting discussions on communication and emotional safety. The hosts also tackle feelings of alienation in social settings, emphasizing the importance of meaningful friendships and boundaries within family dynamics. Highlighting clear communication and self-awareness in relationships, they explore the unique meanings of commitment.
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Veteran PTSD and Opioid Addiction
Seek professional help for PTSD and opioid addiction, especially if you're a veteran.
Utilize VA resources like the Domiciliary Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program and Trauma Recovery Services.
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Experimental PTSD Treatments
Consider experimental PTSD treatments like MDMA, ibogaine, or ayahuasca therapy.
Join a psychedelic recovery group for support and guidance if exploring these treatments.
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Navigating Disagreements on Marriage
Clarify your reasons for wanting marriage and understand your partner's perspective on it.
Consider couples counseling if communication about marriage is difficult.
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You're a veteran who's been lucky enough to return home from war in one piece only to fight a new battle on two fronts: heroin and PTSD. How are you going to fight your way free of this doubly dangerous burden? We'll try to help with this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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You're a veteran who's been lucky enough to return home from war in one piece only to fight a new battle on two fronts: heroin and PTSD. How are you going to fight your way free of this doubly dangerous burden? [Many thanks to Dr. Rubin Khoddam of COPE Psychological Center and Dr. Jennifer Mitchell, Deputy Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, for help with this one!]
Your long-term partner has recently made it clear that he never wants to get married, which is at odds with your own expectations. It's an otherwise ideal, supportive relationship, but disagreeing on this subject casts a shadow over your future together. What should you do?
You're a teenager attending a boarding school with peers you've known your whole life, but their toxic jockeying for position in the social hierarchy goes against your positive, perhaps more mature nature. Is there anything you can do to lift them up without being brought down in the process?
You come from a family in which expressing feelings is forbidden, and problems are ridiculed or ignored rather than talked through. After 15 years of living abroad, you just can't deal with them like you used to. Now that you're visiting for the first time since the pandemic, you want to keep the trip shorter than they were expecting. Should you feel guilty?
Your aunt makes a good living from her small business and wants you to take over when she retires in the next couple of years. But you have very little experience with running a business and you're not positive she's been on the level with her tax obligations -- which you don't want to get stuck dealing with down the line. How do you minimize your risk should you choose to go through with it?
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