I like this talk, but it gets to me that people associate PTSD with war. I have PTSD from severe repeated childhood trauma and it is just as horrible. Many people are in the same situation as I am. while it's very important to acknowledge what these soldiers are experiencing, it would be nice to be acknowledged more often as well. PTSD can happen from any trauma to anyone, and it's something I'll live with in some form for the rest of my life.
It's because war inflicted ones usually are worse. And also, it's because your government seem to have a terrible healthcare system for especially those men and women.
every individual is different, of course observing or killing others is painful but an innocent child being severely abused can be equally as traumatic, I honestly don't understand how you can belittle someone else's experience or difficulties, like what does that give you? respect one another, stop being so bitter and self-absorbed.
She can only talk about the field she is in. She is not the spokesperson for everything traumatic. Of course it works for all trauma. There is no 'who has it worse' in the world of pain. Compassion for you and others.
PTSD and Development Trauma are completely different. As is Complex Trauma. Repeated childhood trauma = developmental trauma and/or complex trauma, not PTSD. Also, trauma was originally recognized because of a direct correlation between veterans and mental health issues. They used to call it "shell shock" after WW1 because they thought it was due to being around explosives ("shells") and sustaining concussions. Only relatively recently have we begun to attribute it as trauma and expanded it to include any life-threatening or significant negative life event.
I don't know what physical audience she was speaking to at the time of this video and if it was veterans. To me, she was speaking to PTSD victims everywhere. All victims of trauma. Whether a soldier at war or an innocent little girl being sexually abused. I have buddies that have served and suffer from PTSD and I have a daughter that has been severally sexually abused and suffers from PTSD. A great presentation about the focus of how creative arts therapy can help trauma victims! I know it helps my daughter. Thank you Melissa for sharing!
To create art is to share a piece of yourself with the world. When you paint, draw, write or craft you are giving your thoughts a place to live outside of your head. You are giving them a home.
I am proud to say that our charity (Forging Ahead Inc.) was made to help veterans and first responders with PTSD/OSI through blacksmithing. The first day I participated, was the first night in a long time that I slept. Shortly after I became VP of the charity, as I believe in it so strongly and have just recently became President. I look forward to watch it grow and help others.
Going to have to ask my therapist about this mask making deal. I have PTSD from a medical surgery gone wrong.. Hopefully this can help me work through the trauma I've been dealing with for over a decade now. Thanks for sharing! 😊
Excellent presentation. Your granddad would be very proud of you. I’m gonna start drawing my issues right now. I love writing but it hurts to use words to think bout it all
Amazing!! My heart is filled with gratefulness for each and every mask made - & for each one yet to be made. I've always known that art is healing, but it was fascinating to hear the fellow speak about how each feature unlocked another key to healing. It's just so amazing!
Hi aebarco. Art therapists work with all populations suffering from PTSD. She just happens to work in a military treatment setting and is speaking to her experiences. I don't think she is meaning to imply that only military service members suffer from PTSD.
I don't know what physical audience she was speaking to at the time of this video and if it was veterans. To me, she was speaking to PTSD victims everywhere. All victims of trauma. Whether a soldier at war or an innocent little girl being sexually abused. I have buddies that have served and suffer from PTSD and I have a daughter that has been severally sexually abused and suffers from PTSD. A great presentation about the focus of how creative arts therapy can help trauma victims! I know it helps my daughter. Thank you Melissa for sharing!
It is discouraging to read about PTSD in the video description as associated only with those who have experienced war. I always feel like a schmuck telling people I have PTSD, because they inevitably ask, "Were you in the military?" When I say I was not, it feels as if I have PTSD-Light. It doesn't seem light to me.
thank you shop much for this video! my partner and the beautiful father of my 3 wonderful children has been struggling with PTSD from time spent in east timor and Afghanistan. .. ... and I can't thank you enough for helping me try to understand how I can help the man I love. have a brilliant day , peace✌💞😆
Share your pain or it destroys you. This is hardly anything new. Art is just a medium for expression. The difference between now and the past is a society more accepting of everyone's faults, failures, and hurt feelings. It's ok to show weakness, temporarily. Well, ok so it may still get you fired or ostracized or whatnot, but you have SJWs on the doorstep waiting to defend you. No, society still isn't prefect when it comes to accomodating the human condition... but at least we have this art. Yay?
Here are some resources. I would say yes but with any psychological treatment, it may not be effective to some. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4253394/ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493800/
To that end, you film yourself doing a strip tease to "Stop in the Name of Love" and distribute it as much as possible. It'll totally work. You could stop all wars!
It seems to me that this is the same healing process of EMDR. It helps use both brain hemispheres together when recalling an event and so then the brain can finally assimilate the memory and file it away instead of spinning it around with no where to go.
that sounds like a wonderful tool to help sufferers of PTSD or, how I think of it given my ongoing harassment (I spoke in opposition to the Iraq War and have been placed on a harassment list and am routinely assaulted and harassed by my government), ongoing traumatic stress disorder
I know not all therapies work for everyone. I'm saying art therapy is a valid option. And if your therapist is forcing you to do things that are harmful, you should complain to someone.
So art can beat PTSD? Thank you for your information! :) I don't have PTSD, thankfully, but, I'm going to share this on my Facebook so that I can do my part of helping others! :)
There's real healing that happens through expression of deep inner feelings, and creating things. What amazes me much more though, is that she thinks this is all physical brain defects. o_O
what about the civilians of Afghanistan who have to deal with the US soldiers oppressing and killin them in cold blood, I believe they go through a lot more than PTSD.
***** Precisely. Those who have PTSD are different from those who've had their "safe space" in the Internet violated by questions they can't answer. As a former USAF Captain, it offends me when people claim PTSD for not being able to stand up and defend themselves against words.
Lucas Resende de Oliveira Everyone loses in war bankers get rich....people need to love and forget their religion their nationalism their race behind....until we do that there will always be people willing to fight
jfsfrnd Art therapists are actively working to produce a strong body of research. Check out their outcomes bibliography www.arttherapy.org/upload/outcomebibliographyresearchcmte.pdf
Dead Joffrey Never knock something that could potentially be life changing for someone. I appreciate that it seems far fetched to you but you are not them. You never know what can work for you without trying. What she alludes to with creativity and the areas of brain activity is a real thing. There are often great artists with very tragic pasts. It's simply another form of therapy, it's a method of rewiring your thinking and association patterns with something manageable. For some it's purging, for others it's part of their process and a stepping stone. We must never discourage any form of therapy if there is good outcome. Keeping an open mind is key.
her mimics tells everything . . . I am living in dramatic stress ewery day . there is no so called POST in this on going stupidity. WAR AND ART ?! Stress will go on till you REPENT FROM YOUR SINS !
Art therapy is a well respected and effective form of therapy, recently being used to treat PTSD. If you'd like to know more about it you could read this medical paper on it: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16537321 or you could read accounts from soldiers who have been treating their PTSD with art therapy - this National Geographic article was a particularly good one: www.nationalgeographic.com/healing-soldiers/. The evidence is the men and women who feel more in control of their trauma because of art therapy, just like the one you heard speak in this video.
EssieD yeah if u see the practice in its totality i don't think anyone is qualified to put "boundaries" about when it should be brought up. people already don't bother despite climate change, cruelty, massive loss of human life, and destruction. in fact you can probably argue disease caused by animal product consumption outstrips that of war at least in the us by a fair sight. people take it seriously, advocates can stop talking about it.
david bouy I grew up on a farm, I saw the process from birth to death. Animal cruelty is horrible. However, that's not the topic of this video, at all. Be an activist for animal rights all you want, but this video has nothing to do with animal cruelty. It's about war vets suffering from PTSD. That's what I was saying. Maybe find a video where animal rights is being discussed and bring it up there? It will get much more attention, and better discussions.
I don't believe this. Art is often just a sort of addiction for these people, it won't solve their problems. Actually, it will further give a sense of being a victim for the mentally ill.
I like this talk, but it gets to me that people associate PTSD with war. I have PTSD from severe repeated childhood trauma and it is just as horrible. Many people are in the same situation as I am. while it's very important to acknowledge what these soldiers are experiencing, it would be nice to be acknowledged more often as well. PTSD can happen from any trauma to anyone, and it's something I'll live with in some form for the rest of my life.
It's because war inflicted ones usually are worse. And also, it's because your government seem to have a terrible healthcare system for especially those men and women.
every individual is different, of course observing or killing others is painful but an innocent child being severely abused can be equally as traumatic, I honestly don't understand how you can belittle someone else's experience or difficulties, like what does that give you? respect one another, stop being so bitter and self-absorbed.
She can only talk about the field she is in. She is not the spokesperson for everything traumatic. Of course it works for all trauma. There is no 'who has it worse' in the world of pain. Compassion for you and others.
PTSD and Development Trauma are completely different. As is Complex Trauma. Repeated childhood trauma = developmental trauma and/or complex trauma, not PTSD. Also, trauma was originally recognized because of a direct correlation between veterans and mental health issues. They used to call it "shell shock" after WW1 because they thought it was due to being around explosives ("shells") and sustaining concussions. Only relatively recently have we begun to attribute it as trauma and expanded it to include any life-threatening or significant negative life event.
I don't know what physical audience she was speaking to at the time of this video and if it was veterans. To me, she was speaking to PTSD victims everywhere. All victims of trauma. Whether a soldier at war or an innocent little girl being sexually abused. I have buddies that have served and suffer from PTSD and I have a daughter that has been severally sexually abused and suffers from PTSD. A great presentation about the focus of how creative arts therapy can help trauma victims! I know it helps my daughter.
Thank you Melissa for sharing!
I have PTSD no I have never been to war but I have been through so much else. Art therapy is amazing!
Nate Fincher what kind of pbs u had?
Nate Fincher self diagnosed Internet PTSD or the actual terrible kind of PTSD?
Nate Fincher
I have PTSD too ( yes, diagnosed by a psychiatrist). Art really is amazing therapy.
I got PTSD, i saw to many SJW completion videos on RUclips
I have been diagnosed and take medication for it thank you
To create art is to share a piece of yourself with the world. When you paint, draw, write or craft you are giving your thoughts a place to live outside of your head. You are giving them a home.
DrakkarVance such a great way to explain that
I am proud to say that our charity (Forging Ahead Inc.) was made to help veterans and first responders with PTSD/OSI through blacksmithing.
The first day I participated, was the first night in a long time that I slept. Shortly after I became VP of the charity, as I believe in it so strongly and have just recently became President.
I look forward to watch it grow and help others.
Going to have to ask my therapist about this mask making deal. I have PTSD from a medical surgery gone wrong.. Hopefully this can help me work through the trauma I've been dealing with for over a decade now. Thanks for sharing! 😊
how are ye now?
For those who know about PTSD video starts at 4:50
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Excellent presentation. Your granddad would be very proud of you. I’m gonna start drawing my issues right now. I love writing but it hurts to use words to think bout it all
Amazing!! My heart is filled with gratefulness for each and every mask made - & for each one yet to be made. I've always known that art is healing, but it was fascinating to hear the fellow speak about how each feature unlocked another key to healing. It's just so amazing!
PTSD is not just for military people. it bothers me they only speak out about them when they talk about PTSD
Hi aebarco. Art therapists work with all populations suffering from PTSD. She just happens to work in a military treatment setting and is speaking to her experiences. I don't think she is meaning to imply that only military service members suffer from PTSD.
When did she imply that?
I don't know what physical audience she was speaking to at the time of this video and if it was veterans. To me, she was speaking to PTSD victims everywhere. All victims of trauma. Whether a soldier at war or an innocent little girl being sexually abused. I have buddies that have served and suffer from PTSD and I have a daughter that has been severally sexually abused and suffers from PTSD. A great presentation about the focus of how creative arts therapy can help trauma victims! I know it helps my daughter.
Thank you Melissa for sharing!
It is discouraging to read about PTSD in the video description as associated only with those who have experienced war. I always feel like a schmuck telling people I have PTSD, because they inevitably ask, "Were you in the military?" When I say I was not, it feels as if I have PTSD-Light. It doesn't seem light to me.
PTSD also comes from being part of a dysfunctional family, and from any traumatic incident. I've experienced both. The artistic remedy - not much.
thank you shop much for this video! my partner and the beautiful father of my 3 wonderful children has been struggling with PTSD from time spent in east timor and Afghanistan. .. ... and I can't thank you enough for helping me try to understand how I can help the man I love. have a brilliant day , peace✌💞😆
I just want to say thank you! I actually made a mask for some reason 4 years ago and didn't know why. I now have a better understanding.
Isn't art remarkable? What a great healing tool. Thanks for creating this video!
Share your pain or it destroys you. This is hardly anything new. Art is just a medium for expression. The difference between now and the past is a society more accepting of everyone's faults, failures, and hurt feelings. It's ok to show weakness, temporarily. Well, ok so it may still get you fired or ostracized or whatnot, but you have SJWs on the doorstep waiting to defend you. No, society still isn't prefect when it comes to accomodating the human condition... but at least we have this art. Yay?
Is there actual clinical trials that show that art therapy is effective for symptoms associated with PTSD in comparison to other interventions?
Of course not, TED has turned into s leftist hippy mumbojumbo promoting TLC-esque channel.
Overonator It won't treat the symptoms, but it can help manage the anxiety that comes with it by providing the victim an outlet to express themself.
Here are some resources. I would say yes but with any psychological treatment, it may not be effective to some.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4253394/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493800/
I'm commenting just to see if *+TheAGCteam* comes back to rectify his douchebaggery.
no but there are trials showing the effects random comments have on it... NOTHING
this is truly fucking beautiful
Absolutely ❤ this!
Nice approach. I got a simpler solution: Just don't start wars...
To that end, you film yourself doing a strip tease to "Stop in the Name of Love" and distribute it as much as possible. It'll totally work. You could stop all wars!
well.. depends on the replay value.
this is awesome
Reminds me of the masks worn in Japanese Noh and Kyogen theater.
To see, think and feel from a different perpective may bring healing benefits.
When I stop playing piano I start to remember my nightmares.
Brad Rade keep playing that piano mate 😆 💙🍀🌼
Brad Rade when i start remembering my nightmares, i play piano
¡MARAVILLOSO! Gracias!
War is where even the Brave ones cry.
It seems to me that this is the same healing process of EMDR. It helps use both brain hemispheres together when recalling an event and so then the brain can finally assimilate the memory and file it away instead of spinning it around with no where to go.
There are a lot of therapy modalities out there. Art, Equine, CBT, etc. which have been helpful for my daughter. We are considering EMDR
@@billwallace7125 Also check out Somatic Experiencing - very powerful as well (choose a professional practioner ) Be well x
BFIB looks terrifying. Glad it's in the box. Glad the patient is ok now.
...please tell me you're aware PTSD affects more than just soldiers....
Impressive to learn your story! Thats what actually inspired me to start a youtube channel.
good video, Thanks!
Where is this for non military DV survivors?
Reminds me of that marine turned artist who exposed collateral murder..
that sounds like a wonderful tool to help sufferers of PTSD or, how I think of it given my ongoing harassment (I spoke in opposition to the Iraq War and have been placed on a harassment list and am routinely assaulted and harassed by my government), ongoing traumatic stress disorder
I don't say this lightly. The comment section is cancer.
why?
She finally unlocked the key to getting paid with an art degree.
this. clever woman indeed but treating mental illness without _psycho_therapy is very questionable from an ethical standpoint.
How is something that helps people questionable from an ethical standpoint?
Because art has been proven to be a good coping mechanism and many therapists encourage their patients to try it evenif they're not an art therapist.
I've never been to a therapist who forced me to do something. And I... have issues, so I've been to many therapists.
I know not all therapies work for everyone.
I'm saying art therapy is a valid option. And if your therapist is forcing you to do things that are harmful, you should complain to someone.
Awesome!
This is a good thing
So art can beat PTSD? Thank you for your information! :) I don't have PTSD, thankfully, but, I'm going to share this on my Facebook so that I can do my part of helping others! :)
There's real healing that happens through expression of deep inner feelings, and creating things. What amazes me much more though, is that she thinks this is all physical brain defects. o_O
It is brain trauma
Please tell that man he need not say sorry for choking up. His humanity is not a crime. Christ wept, he can, too.
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Nice video. Only vets get PTSD right? Nobody but service members have invisible wounds.
can you remove your strike on bearing? thanks
Bryan Lawrence who has the strike???? TED?
kxtcx3iox2307 0 ted put up a copyright strike against another youtube cause he made a video about their video on fat shaming.
what about the civilians of Afghanistan who have to deal with the US soldiers oppressing and killin them in cold blood, I believe they go through a lot more than PTSD.
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Whoa
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try 1:34
What about all those who claim to have PTSD because someone on the Internet hurt their feelings? Will art work for their TBI as well?
Rand Huso
Obviously they don't have PTSD. This video is about people who were actually diagnosed by a psychiatrist, not whiny people on the internet.
Rand Huso No, but slam poetry may soothe their tortured soul ;P
*****
Precisely. Those who have PTSD are different from those who've had their "safe space" in the Internet violated by questions they can't answer. As a former USAF Captain, it offends me when people claim PTSD for not being able to stand up and defend themselves against words.
*****
You are probably correct... but you don't have to shout it. ;-)
MF DOOM @ 8:11?
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Thumbs up if this video gave you PTSD !
MF DOOM
interesting
what about stopping wars? they are not hero's at all
Lucas Resende de Oliveira Everyone loses in war bankers get rich....people need to love and forget their religion their nationalism their race behind....until we do that there will always be people willing to fight
You know what heals PTSD. LSD.
Not killing people can AVOID PTSD
Yo thats MF DOOM
In my country, the military soldiers doesn't have PTSDs because they don't invade nothing...
I bet you thought you were clever when you wrote that. so ignorant on so many levels
what?? no...
prob start making masks soon
I appreciate what this woman is trying to do, but it seems fairly pseudo-sciency, like chiropractors and acupuncture.
It's backed up with real science. There are studies about it.
It's a short ted talk but there's a bit of research done on this. It can help or not. All therapy relies on the patients' willingness to get better.
jfsfrnd Art therapists are actively working to produce a strong body of research. Check out their outcomes bibliography www.arttherapy.org/upload/outcomebibliographyresearchcmte.pdf
***** the patient
Dead Joffrey Never knock something that could potentially be life changing for someone. I appreciate that it seems far fetched to you but you are not them. You never know what can work for you without trying. What she alludes to with creativity and the areas of brain activity is a real thing. There are often great artists with very tragic pasts. It's simply another form of therapy, it's a method of rewiring your thinking and association patterns with something manageable. For some it's purging, for others it's part of their process and a stepping stone. We must never discourage any form of therapy if there is good outcome. Keeping an open mind is key.
the masks are hard to watch. very disturbing
:)
her mimics tells everything . . . I am living in dramatic stress ewery day . there is no so called POST in this on going stupidity. WAR AND ART ?! Stress will go on till you REPENT FROM YOUR SINS !
So....no evidence for her claims. Shocker!
Art therapy is a well respected and effective form of therapy, recently being used to treat PTSD. If you'd like to know more about it you could read this medical paper on it: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16537321 or you could read accounts from soldiers who have been treating their PTSD with art therapy - this National Geographic article was a particularly good one: www.nationalgeographic.com/healing-soldiers/. The evidence is the men and women who feel more in control of their trauma because of art therapy, just like the one you heard speak in this video.
unsubbed for false dmca takedowns!
Oh but it isn't terrifying slaughtering animals and consuming them
JFC UnC
There's a time and a place. This is not the time or the place.
EssieD yeah if u see the practice in its totality i don't think anyone is qualified to put "boundaries" about when it should be brought up. people already don't bother despite climate change, cruelty, massive loss of human life, and destruction. in fact you can probably argue disease caused by animal product consumption outstrips that of war at least in the us by a fair sight. people take it seriously, advocates can stop talking about it.
david bouy
I grew up on a farm, I saw the process from birth to death. Animal cruelty is horrible. However, that's not the topic of this video, at all. Be an activist for animal rights all you want, but this video has nothing to do with animal cruelty. It's about war vets suffering from PTSD. That's what I was saying.
Maybe find a video where animal rights is being discussed and bring it up there? It will get much more attention, and better discussions.
I don't believe this. Art is often just a sort of addiction for these people, it won't solve their problems. Actually, it will further give a sense of being a victim for the mentally ill.
:)