Wounded Marines Say Afghanistan is Worth The Price

God Bless our brave men and women who have served and continue to serve overseas.

H/T CBS News

Playing Video Game Tetris Reduces Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Flashbacks

The game of Tetris has been shown to have some medicinal value.  Tetris is good for easing the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder.  This challenging mind-bending block-maneuvering game actually reduces the number of flashbacks of those people who have post-traumatic stress disorder.  

Here is a graph which shows that people who played Tetris after seeing a traumatic film had fewer flashbacks a week later.

From the Guardian: The research, which was conducted at the department of psychiatry at the University of Oxford, suggests using Tetris as a "cognitive vaccine" against flashbacks from traumatic events. It's published on the open-source science research Public Library of Science (PLoS) website.


Here's how they set out their recommendations:

The rationale for a 'cognitive vaccine' approach is as follows: Trauma flashbacks are sensory-perceptual, visuospatial mental images. Visuospatial cognitive tasks selectively compete for resources required to generate mental images. Thus, a visuospatial computer game (e.g. "Tetris") will interfere with flashbacks. Visuospatial tasks post-trauma, performed within the time window for memory consolidation, will reduce subsequent flashbacks. We predicted that playing "Tetris" half an hour after viewing trauma would reduce flashback frequency over 1-week.

In other words, if you're looking at falling squares, lines, hoooks and whatever those twiddly ones that are two overlapping lines of two are called, then you don't have time to visualise your previous bad experiences.

I'm glad I wasn't asked to take part:

Forty participants watched a 12-min film of traumatic scenes of injury and death (n = 20 per group). Film viewing was followed by a 30-min interval before simple random assignment to one of two experimental conditions. There were no baseline differences between the two groups in terms of age, depressive symptoms or trait anxiety or gender. Mood was equivalent between the groups prior to watching the film, and as predicted, both groups experienced comparable mood deterioration following the film (emphasis added).

(Tell me about it. Someone at work was looking for gruesome scenes from ER involving helicopters and instead found a real-life one. I'm recommending Tetris to him.)

Afterwards, one group just sat quietly, and another played Tetris, for ten minutes. They then kept a diary about flashbacks they'd had; this showed that the group which had played Tetris had significantly fewer (with a probability that it was chance less than 1%).

It's a remarkable finding; though looking at the long list of references, the idea of visual "distraction" as a method of desensitising people from visual memories has been around since at least early this decade.

But who'd have thought we'd find a potentially workable cure in a game that for a while 20 years ago seemed like a Russian plot to turn all our population into obsessive cursor-button pokers? (Wait, did it work?)

So maybe that's going to be the new treatment for returning soldiers from the front: Nintendo Gameboys loaded with Tetris.

This is a really great medical breakthrough!!!  I hope that this type of therapy expands and helps as many people as possible who are dealing with trautic-stress disorder today.  Hooray for medical innovation!!!

Honoring Our Veterans - American Anthem by Norah Jones

The Quartet '4 Troops' -- "Bless The Broken Road"

The President's Crotch Salute

You’d think, if he’s Commander in Chief, the least he could do is salute those killed!

Our Disgraceful President.  The man shows absolutely NO HONOR for our military.  Our so-called President(he doesn't act like a president should) has NEVER experienced being in harms way.  His big EGO bubble needs to be burst in a big way.  The man won't even show honor to our fallen troops who were killed at Ft. Hood by a Muslim extremist terrorist. 

FIRE THIS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF!!!!

Honoring Our Military on Veterans Day

On Veterans Day, it is with great pride that we honor our brave men and women who are serving in the military today as well as those who have served in the past. All of our heroes deserve not only to be honored today but also, every day of the year.  Our heroes have made extraordinary sacrifices to defend our nation and some have made the ultimate sacrifice in order to defend our freedom. May God keep our troops safe. Here are some videos honoring them.
 

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!!

 

GOD BLESS THE USA!!

H/T to Woodsterman

Obama Fox Hunting & Keeps General McChrystal Waiting

General McChrystal has been waiting... And waiting .... For the "indecisive one" to give an answer to his request for over 2 months. As Obama acts like a school-boy on a teeter-totter, and as Karl Rove describes Obama's indecisiveness as Wobbly our troops are waiting for their commander-in-chief to send the additional troops to help them defeat Al-Qaeda.

Obama has been on the prowl hunting Fox instead of actually focusing on his priorities of being a commander-in-chief and granting General McChrystal's request. Obambi needs to listen to the General whom he appointed as the commander in Afghanistan. Obambi either needs to send more troops to Afghanistan, or bring our troops home before they are endangered further due to Obambi's indecision and him being a weak leader.

 
 

Obama is in bed with the same media and Democratic Party who wanted the U.S. to fail in Iraq. Obama is still in bed with the MSM who wants the U.S. to surrender in defeat in Afghanistan rather than properly securing this area of the Middle East in order to stop the breeding of terrorism as best we can. I believe that Obama is putting politics above both the safety of the lives of our soldiers and of the United States. Obama called the War in Afghanistan a "war of necessity" but as soon as he realizes that the obstacles are tougher than he thought, the Obamapussy wanes, hides, and is indecisive proving that he is a weak President.

Call and E-Mail Pelosi-Save American Troops Lives!!!!

I am encouraging all people who visit my site to call Nancy Pelosi and make your voices be heard so that the Abu-Graib abuse photos are not released for the public to view them. These photos will do absolutely no good!!! These photos will incite violence against our troops and cause them grave harm. These abuse photos must be stopped from entering the publics viewing eyes. Let us do everything possible to keep our troops safe.Here is Pelosi's contact information:Speaker Nancy Pelosi
http://speaker.house.gov/contact

Office of the Speaker
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Thank You and God Bless!!!