MakeTheConnection.net supports service members, Veterans, and their loved ones by sharing hundreds of videos featuring Veterans talking about their personal experiences with mental health treatment and recovery.
During Suicide Prevention Month and year round, help VA let people know that preventing suicide starts with this simple act of support: Be There.
Measurement based care will empower you to work closely with your VA clinicians to establish an individualized plan for your mental health.
VA’s HOME Program was created to help patients – especially those who live in rural areas – access mental health care after they transition from inpatient psychiatric care and re-enter their community.
The message from VA to the friends and families of Veterans during Suicide Prevention Month is simple: Be there.
Adapting to different ways of thinking and new behaviors in individual and group sessions provides many opportunities for peer support specialists to share their own recovery stories and help Veterans create meaningful wellness plans.
“We have the Rolls Royce of doctors here,” said a Marine Veteran and one of Dr. Paticio Reyes’ patients. “He was able to explain clearly what was going on...and provided me alternative methods [instead of] simply handing me a prescription like other have done.”
This Veteran did 539 standing ab-wheel roll outs to break a world record and break the stigma of mental health.
Inside the Deer Creek conference room of Building 16 at the Salt Lake City VA Health Care System sit two World War II Veterans and two Korean War Veterans. Combined they share 352 years of wisdom, strength and courage.
Roughly eight out of every 100 people will experience PTSD at some point in their lifetime, and almost 500,000 of the Veterans treated by VA have a primary or secondary diagnosis of PTSD.
As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, VA held a #VeteranChat on Twitter to elevate the conversation about how to support Veterans’ mental health at transition points — like leaving military service, starting school, or entering the civilian workforce.
The birth of a baby is a life-changing event that can trigger all kinds of emotions from happiness and joy to jitters and fear. It can also lead to something you might not expect — postpartum depression.