PBS has had a show on IRAQ veterans who have PTSD. It’s sad to see how many young people, in the beginning of life are suffering from trauma after serving there. It’s like compressing our very worst and complete life into one single year of life and then living with the horrific images in your mind day in and day out afterwards. These young people who gave their lives, and literally gave their lives to the military effort and will continue giving their lives because for the rest of their lives they will have the images we wish they would never have had to see.

Too bad we can’t send the old drunk geezers out there who don’t care about their lives anyways and who are crazy as hell, and hell bent on showing how macho they are. Instead the unfortunate truth is that we send out our youngest most vital members of society to a horrific, depressing and sad world.

Coping with PTSD is difficult. It can take much time to dull memories that one doesn’t really want to deal with.

If you are military suffering PTSD check out the link here to find more assistance.

A new study has shown that just smelling food (like a good chocolate cake for example) can create an increase in dopamine. The study at Brookhaven is located here: http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2002/bnlpr052002.htm .. but you already knew that right?

Looks like a new development in the depression industry, the ability to measure dopamine. Here is a link to the Coulochem III electrochemical detector, but looks like this one is for blood only in major labs.

Meanwhile, here we have “Integrated” something or other that actually has the tests to get neurotransmitters tested

Well now the newest study comes out showing that TMS, Transcranial magnetic stimulation, is effective in decreasing depression in people who have been resistant to treatment from medication.  Essentially this is the use of a magnet pulsating electrical impuleses to the brain, very similar it seems to electro shock therapy used in the 50’s and even to this day to shock the brain out of it’s senses. Well in TMS it appears that this is a gentler way of stimulating the brain into action. Now it’s time to go out to the health store and purchase one of those magnetetic pillows that have been floating around for a while touting off the health benefits that turn out to be true.

If you’ve ever been in an MRI machine, you might have had some type of Magnetic Pulsing, some clicking, some sounds, that are similar to the system of TMS.  What is promising about this type of therapy is that it’s non invasive and it doesn’t require drugs.

The only thought that comes to my mind on this one is what kind of a brain jolt is this?

There are some products on the market, such as the SOTA Magnetic Pulser that might also do the trick. Who knows.

I’m thinking to give it a try along with one of the SAD lights to see if I really get any happier than I am already.