{"id":13207,"date":"2015-11-11T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T18:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=13207"},"modified":"2018-07-23T13:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:17:05","slug":"having-a-father-with-ptsd-a-drill-sergeant-in-the-military-and-a-drill-sergeant-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/having-a-father-with-ptsd-a-drill-sergeant-in-the-military-and-a-drill-sergeant-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Having A Father With PTSD: A Drill Sergeant In The Military And A Drill Sergeant At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u201cI experienced some gruesome things there&#8230;I started having nightmares. I didn\u2019t have any idea it was going to turn into the terrible thing it turned into&#8230;I woke up one day as an alcoholic, out of control&#8230; And I was looking for anything that would help me cope.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Video:<\/strong> Melvin Brown was offered the Transcendental <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/meditation-techniques\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meditation<\/a> technique through the David Lynch Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlynchfoundation.org\/military.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Operation Warrior Wellness<\/a> Program. Initial studies on the TM technique and PTSD have shown 40-55% reduction in symptoms of PTSD and depression; 42% decrease in insomnia; 30% improvement in satisfaction with quality of life; and more. Did you know you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidlynchfoundation.org\/donate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sponsor a veteran<\/a> to learn the TM technique?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Technique:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/meditation-techniques\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transcendental Meditation<\/a> is a simple, natural, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/practice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">effortless technique<\/a> practiced 20 minutes twice each day while sitting comfortably with the eyes closed. It is easy to learn and enjoyable to practice, and is not a religion, philosophy, or lifestyle. Over six million people have learned it \u2014 people of all ages, cultures, and religions \u2014 and over 380 published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/research-on-meditation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research studies<\/a> have found that the TM technique markedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/reduced-stress-and-anxiety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reduces stress<\/a>, anxiety, and fatigue, and promotes balanced functioning of mind and body.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI experienced some gruesome things there&#8230;I started having nightmares. I didn\u2019t have any idea it was going to turn into the terrible thing it turned into&#8230;I woke up one day as an alcoholic, out of control&#8230; And I was looking for anything that would help me cope.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/having-a-father-with-ptsd-a-drill-sergeant-in-the-military-and-a-drill-sergeant-at-home\/?leadsource=CRM429\">Watch the video<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[161,285,295,97,32,22,284],"class_list":["post-13207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vlog","tag-anxiety","tag-insomnia","tag-meditation","tag-ptsd","tag-stress","tag-transcendental-meditation","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13207"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13821,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13207\/revisions\/13821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}