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    Live Now! Continue the Fight: PTSD and TBI
    Live Now! Continue the Fight: PTSD and TBI
    Live Now! Continue the Fight: PTSD and TBI
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    Live Now! Continue the Fight: PTSD and TBI

    By Minister Gary Tate

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    Further, concerning PTSD and TBI, there are reports from the VA directly related to Veterans that address the report from Veterans Administration indicates that twenty-two soldiers everyday take their lives! To them their fight came to an end. This is tragic since they returned home only to find their new life here harder to adjust to. The possibly thoughts and range of emotions they had to deal with that came home with them have plagued them constantly. And many of our troops may have been identified as having PTSD, or TBI, with symptoms of having anxiety, adjustment disorders, and problems with alcohol and other drugs. Some of the recent returned Veterans have had Traumatic brain injuries that are similar to PTSD problems. Both of these symptoms have their loved one’s grasping for answers, for a Veteran or non-Veteran, and I hope this directs them to be able to not only understand what they are facing, but be able to respond correctly, medically and spiritual speaking to find wholeness for the person they love.
    Within this document in Chapter Two – What You Should Know About PTSD, Chapter Three - “Traumatic Brain Injury”, after this section: Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD – U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (E), and Chapter Five - TBI Problems, Symptoms and Treatment, you will find statements made from the VA (Veterans Administration), some that contradict, noted as underlined and bolded areas, the information that they provide. And there are bolded areas only showing information you should be aware of.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMinister Gary Tate
    Release dateJul 24, 2016
    ISBN9781370756469
    Live Now! Continue the Fight: PTSD and TBI
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    Minister Gary Tate

    I am a Christian father of four grown adults; I have seen God's grace and mercy in my life. I will be happily married for 45 years this year (2016), to my wife, Anne. She is a woman of great faith and love, whom I share this life with. We overcame the statistics for marriages of Vietnam veterans, as my wife has told me. We have done this all while loving and caring for our severely and profoundly disabled daughter, which the stress alone could have added so many complications to our lives if we allowed it. We have raised four children into four grown adults. Our first born, Rebecca, has her B.A. in education and is a teacher. Our second child, Robert, works as a Supervisor for a cleaning company and was a coach with special needs children, and has a girlfriend named Natalie. Our third child, Mariel, has received her B.S.R.N., in Nursing, and was married in 2007 to Ronell. They have a son, Nadir, who turned 17 this year (2013). They have another sibling named Levi born into this world in 2010 and then Micah, conceived in 2012 and are expecting their third boy by the first week of September, 2014. Ronell and Mariel have a church now in the south suburbs of Chicago, Chicago/Dallas - Jesus Center. Finally, our youngest, Gayle, who, as I often say, "I believe I would not be the person I am today without her." I have a ministry named: Veterans Outreach/Marksman Ministry that is a sole-propriety ministry that I started in 2012. I have received my Associate degree in August of 2006 and my license as a minister, September 16, 2012 from God Carriers International Ministries.

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      Live Now! Continue the Fight - Minister Gary Tate

      Live Now! Continue the Fight – PTSD and TBI

      (PTSD and TBI resource)

      WEBSITE: http://veteransoutreach.weebly.com

      Copyright 2016 Minister Gary Tate

      All proceeds from this book will go to the Veterans Outreach ministry to help Veterans. I do not receive a salary!

      Author: Minister Gary Tate

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      Dedication

      This book clearly details information about the report from the Veterans Administration that indicates twenty-two soldiers everyday take their lives! To them their fight came to an end. This is tragic since they returned home only to find their new life here harder to adapt with, this includes the thoughts and range of emotions they had to try to come to endeavor to come to grips with having plagued them constantly. Many have been recognized as having PTSD, or TBI, with symptoms of having anxiety, adjustment disorders, and problems with alcohol and other drugs. Some of the recently returned veterans have had Traumatic Brain Injuries that are similar to PTSD problems. And I do believe the Veterans Administration is trying to reach out through group meetings that I have attended and the doctors who do try to make sure a Veteran is not looking to find closure to their seemly endless torture of their thoughts followed by emotions that seem to control, manipulate and eventually have them to choose to end their present battle. Yet I think that they look only at the physical and not spiritual answers.

      Further, concerning PTSD and TBI, there are reports from the VA directly related to Veterans that address the report from Veterans Administration indicates that twenty-two soldiers everyday take their lives! To them their fight came to an end. This is tragic since they returned home only to find their new life here harder to adjust to. The possibly thoughts and range of emotions they had to deal with that came home with them have plagued them constantly. And many of our troops may have been identified as having PTSD, or TBI, with symptoms of having anxiety, adjustment disorders, and problems with alcohol and other drugs. Some of the recent returned Veterans have had Traumatic brain injuries that are similar to PTSD problems. Both of these symptoms have their loved one’s grasping for answers, for a Veteran or non-Veteran, and I hope this directs them to be able to not only understand what they are facing, but be able to respond correctly, medically and spiritual speaking to find wholeness for the person they love.

      Within this document in Chapter Two – What You Should Know About PTSD, Chapter Three - Traumatic Brain Injury, after this section: Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD – U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (E), and Chapter Five - TBI Problems, Symptoms and Treatment, you will find statements made from the VA (Veterans Administration), some that contradict, noted as underlined and bolded areas, the information that they provide. And there are bolded areas only showing information you should be aware of.

      Inserted within Chapter Three – Continue the Fight!, is the information I used to re file for my PTSD award Some of the common emotional, for Vietnam and current Veteran responses:(Point Man Ministries) and 10 Ways to Recognize Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which was adjusted correctly from my original discharge,. The non-VA doctor read my information I had printed out for her with the original decision the VA had made, and noted how they had made it was surprising to her!

      I highly suggest you make your own copy with comments on where you are to use if you want to file for adjustment to a claim you may have. AS well pick a Veterans group such as the DAV, VFW, or American Legion to handle the required paper work for the VA to review. Remember, PTSD and TBI have similar symptoms that even the VA will state as a fact, and is provide within this document.

      Acknowledgements

      To God, Who, had and has kept me safe in the midst of all I faced, saved me in every way imaginable. He has helped me beyond words by what I can explain and is to this very day leading, guiding and instructing me as to my future by the Holy Spirit, beyond what at times my mind and emotions will tell me.

      I say this since on my exam a couple years ago, the non-VA doctor said that I had learned to cope. She looked at my original diagnose the Army doctors gave me back in 1970 and changed it to PTSD. Back then they had given me some drug, -I really do not remember what it was-, and had daily visits to group therapy, where it is noted I just smiled a lot. Well, coping is effective. I guess. Yet she failed to realize if it were not for me being saved and having God through His word and Holy Spirit where I was that day would have been quite different! The smile I wear is the knowledge that I could have died that day in Vietnam and went straight to Hell. I know maybe you are thinking – really! I had seen an Angel of Death awaiting me at my right side on that open field in Vietnam, -I did not need anyone to tell me-, my whole sense and thoughts drove me to that conclusion!

      Prologue

      In this document within Chapter Two – What You Should Know about PTSD; Chapter Three – Continue the Fight; Chapter Four – Traumatic Brain Injury; Chapter 5 - TBI Problems, Symptoms and Treatment, in each episode they contain collected material from twelve different sources, such as the VA and Christian websites. However, in Chapter One – My Journey to Understanding PTSD, Chapter Six – Managing My Injuries; Chapter Seven – Stress and Finding Relief and finally, Chapter Eight - Keys and Our Recovery, they contain my own personal story and various statistics of the challenges and process of recovery while having PTSD.

      I read this book recently called Healing Suicidal Veterans by Victor Montgomery III, MAEd., CMAC, RAS and he wrote that There can be many feelings and thoughts that can prevent you if you let them, yet you can make the first decision to reach out, step out and find help, though this may be difficult to do. Your courage and determination doing this will encourage and help the Veteran. (A) And I concur with this advice! Live Now! Continue the Fight! I want to include now what I shared at my local Church (Living Water Community Church) with Stephen and HEROES (veterans outreach group) ministries in regards to this material:

      Point 1 – Continue the Fight (thus the sub-title)

      As veterans, especially if they have seen combat, it can be that they have walked through their own valleys of death in some way. Now that they are here home again, and I want you to encourage this clear message to veterans: for them to continue the fight to live beyond all they have experienced or seen. They have been, like me, called survivors, yet I want them to choose to live this life fuller and deeper. Like me, they have arrived home and my prayer is that their progression and goal are resolve. As for myself, I will not let what was given to me in Vietnam be forgotten nor wasted by my lack of effort or decisions. It was my new starting place, another opportunity I had to begin again to live this life. One I never want to waste away.

      The transition home can be an incredibly tough one and I am so saddened when I hear that a returned veteran has taken their life! It is reported that over 25 soldiers a day commit suicide. The only words I had for one soldier I met and greeted home lately were You made it home; now please choose to make it through this! Most have had different experiences, types of shock, distress, reactions and are looking for help or suggestions on how to begin or continue their walk towards wholeness. As I have written earlier, there are familiar experiences among Vietnam veterans, like me. That have had some similar reactions and feelings that are called P.T.S.D. (post-traumatic stress disorder). They try to hide their pain, grief and experiences behind a mask, as I have done and still do with my smile". I am now going to present my badges, medals and ribbons I have received next, as there are many presenting themselves as having served. One look at a Veterans eye will give you the obvious indication they are one and if

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