GETYOURSH*TTOGETHER.COM

Summary:

Blast Injury: the gift that keeps on giving. Veterans who have been deployed have virtually all experienced blast injury. A blast “rips” through your brain in 3 msec, causing diffuse injury and dysfunction. It is most likely that anyone who

experiences one blast injury experiences more than one blast injury, injuring an already injured brain. Blast injury is the gift that keeps on giving: in combination with other injuries that deployed military members experience, the injury contributes to neurodegenerative symptoms. Other traumatic injuries, toxic exposures, neuroendocrine dysfunction, hypoxia from

sleep apnea and other pathological processes worsen a brain injury condition.

Veterans have asked for a website “getyoursh*ttogther.com” and

suggested that every injured veteran would gravitate to the site. It

is hard to self assess and figure out what happened. You can walk, talk and eat, but your thinking is not as clear. It is harder to process information. Your emotions feel out of control. You feel dizzy at times. You can’t sleep at night anymore, no matter how much you drink or sedate

yourself. And then the VA tells you that you have PTSD and you need medicine and counseling. But what is really going on ?

Proper assessment is necessary: brain imaging, labs, toxicity testing, sleep studies to name a few. You cannot improve your functional ability until you address the brain health issues. Brain health is mental

health,Veterans must advocate for their care, as the system is not set up for these evaluations. If you don’t take care of your brain, who will ? Look for a treatment center near you at TreatNow.org.

(The website Getyoursh*ttogether.com does not exist ! )