2 Stories: PTSD and the Media – and a Ferguson Story
KBCS’s KD Hall interviews clinical psychologist, Chalon Ervin about how some of us can experience post traumatic stress disorder by constantly being exposed to tragedies in the media.
Plus,
Musician, Author and Theologian, Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou was arrested for praying in front of Ferguson, Missouri riot police, in 2014 during the protests for slain teenager, Michael Brown. He shares that story with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama.
The Media and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
KBCS’s KD Hall interviews clinical psychologist, Chalon Ervin about how some of us can experience post traumatic stress disorder by constantly being exposed to tragedies in the media.
Military Suicides
Military loss doesn’t always mean death in combat. Sometimes it can take the form of a training accident, plane crash or… suicide. With the growing numbers of service members coming home, we see that they return to face another war – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), is a national non-profit devoted to providing ongoing, peer-based, emotional support to anyone grieving the death of a loved one who served in the Armed Forces. Increasingly, those deaths are due to suicide.
Guest:
Laurie Fueston of Bellingham, Washington. Laurie is the mother of Josh Fueston, who served in Iraq and took his own life after a long battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Listen to the interview: KBCS_M+I_20130624_Military Suicide
2013 Josh Fueston Memorial Swim to Live
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
Veterans Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255(press 1) U.S. and Canada
