"Next-Generation Treatment Options for Combat PTSD," with Amber and Marcus Capone of SEAL Team SIX. When he was medically retired after 13 years. and multiple combat deployments as a U.S. Navy SEAL, Marcus Capone and his wife, Amber, thought that life would return to normal. Instead, their struggle had just begun. Marcus was experiencing an escalating myriad of challenges, including depression, isolation, cognitive impairment, excessive alcohol use, headaches, insomnia, and impulsivity.
Marcus was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but, instinctively, Amber felt there was more to be discovered. After learning about the effects of blast waves, concussive, and sub concussive brain injuries, everything started to become clear. Marcus’ military career as an explosives expert, combined with his prior years of contact sports, had left him with the invisible wounds of traumatic brain injury (TBI), a condition that has significant overlap with PTSD, and is often not properly diagnosed.
1:11 Another friend of mine who told me he was taking the cocktail, and the VA gives you this massive or the or the military gives you a massive cocktail of antidepressants or stimulants or whatever the the pattern may be of medications and medications alone are often not the solution, often not the solution to PTSD or whatever. There's a mental illness involved.
3:02 After multiple combat deployments, Marcus and Emerson realized that the subsequent years would be wrought with escalating hardships misdiagnosis, a broken veteran healthcare system and desperation to find a meaningful solution before it was too late.
13:20 Helping guys get access to different type of treatment modalities that are really helping full like mind, body and soul.
24:16 But right now, today, if you don't do the proper integration, excuse me preparation before these psychedelic journeys, and then the proper integration afterwards, you know, you can you're it's it could be a recipe for disaster, you want to do these, you know, you want to go into these experiences with all the tools and all the information you need.
29:11 Many of these deep psychedelic journeys, by the way that are not fun, that are like a lot of work and you're, you know, you're in a bed, or resting in some type of palette, because you're, you're on, you're on a heavy, heavy dose of these medicines. When you're on these medicines, they tap into your subconscious and they reach down and they make you deal with some of those traumas that potentially can be causing you to have that addiction.
33:52 I think it's so important to you know, like, we're from a community of very good soldiers, but also very unconventional thinking individuals. And so I think that that goes for both the guys and the spouses is very much the case.
42:43 That's perfect vet solutions.org I want to point everybody to that. Open your minds, you know, dear listener, in your mind.
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