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MUSKEGON COUNTY, Mich. — A Norton Shores man was arrested Sunday after leading police on a chase on his moped.

Norton Shores Police were dispatched to a home on Reneer Avenue west of Leon Street after Richard Shear, 28, allegedly threatened his mother and girlfriend with a sledgehammer and a knife and tried to set the house on fire.

Sources tell FOX 17 that the suspect’s mother called police after he threatened her with the weapons.

He`s accused of threatening his girlfriend too, but she told FOX 17 that never happened.

Sources also tell FOX 17 Shears attempted to light the house on fire by pouring gasoline on his landscaping then throwing a candle.

They say he also slashed an SUV’s tire before hopping on the moped and fleeing.

As FOX 17 took a closer look at the incident, we learned Shear has a history of drunk driving arrests, but we’re told he is also seeking help for mental health issues.

We’re told Shear, just like many other servicemen and women, suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a result of his time spent serving overseas in Iraq during his eight years in the Marines.

Those close to him tell us he has been struggling with PTSD, abusing alcohol to prevent dealing with the deep seeded issues and hitting rock bottom on Sunday.

Police say the chase ended back at Shear’s home when he tried running back inside but was arrested by police.

His bond has been set at $100,000.

http://fox17online.com/2014/10/27/man-on-moped-leads-muskegon-co-law-enforcement-on-low-speed-chase/

My money is on that this is an episode of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Usually by soldiers formally on the front lines.

What's disgusting is the hypocrisy of people, who applaud the constant bombardment of Israel with missiles, and then rise up in outrage when Israel moves to defend itself.

Israel shows amazing fucking restraint for a country that had hundreds of missiles launched at it.

Hamas fired over 400 rockets at civilian population centers.

You would be singing a very different song if your home town came under constant bombardment. 50% of Israeli kids living near the Gaza Strip have post traumatic stress disorder. Fuck Hamas and the horse they rode in on.

First of all, you're confusing remorse/regret with post-traumatic stress disorder. They're not the same thing.
Secondly, military soldiers aren't the only ones that experience PTSD.
And third, you seem to have a misunderstanding of what constitutes "trauma," and ways to treat it.

>> ^Skeeve:

I tend to agree with westy on this one.
Firstly, the video didn't provide much of a moral dilemma - particularly one large enough to fit the tone of the message.
Secondly, pilots (then and now) experience significantly lower rates of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and less remorse for what they have done. While it isn't impossible for a bomber pilot to feel remorse, in the majority of cases you will find that an infantryman feels more remorse over a single kill than a bomber pilot for hundreds. This made the video seem a little whiny to me.


thats whats weard and why around half way through i asumed it was the nuke thing as im pritty sure most of those guys commited suiside , + it would have drawn more to the wastefull nature of war.

I tend to agree with westy on this one.

Firstly, the video didn't provide much of a moral dilemma - particularly one large enough to fit the tone of the message.

Secondly, pilots (then and now) experience significantly lower rates of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and less remorse for what they have done. While it isn't impossible for a bomber pilot to feel remorse, in the majority of cases you will find that an infantryman feels more remorse over a single kill than a bomber pilot for hundreds. This made the video seem a little whiny to me.

The narrator was saying they don't have the facilities to anesthetize the kid (poor area)and despite it being painful for the kid and the staff, they have to do it. I didn't hear them being verbally mean to the kid though, I heard the opposite. Probably going to give the kid post traumatic stress disorder though =( =(

>> ^NaMeCaF:

Holy shit, those doctor's are complete cunts. The way they speak to and treat the poor kid BEFORE and after the procedure is horrible, let alone the horrific procedure itself.
I wouldn't be surprised if that kid grows up with a real fear of doctors. He'll probably die from some thing that could have been treated or prevented had he seen a doctor earlier but he wont thanks to this memory.

>> ^brycewi19:
How do you say Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Japanese?


like this http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BF%83%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%96%E5%82%B7%E5%BE%8C%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E9%9A%9C%E5%AE%B3

How do you say Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Japanese?

I'm an American, so I'm still experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder from 8 years of the biggest Fail presidency in U.S. history. My therapist advised me only to talk more about this when I'm stronger. Sorry.

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Memories of Iraq haunted soldier until suicide

WASHINGTON — Until the day he died, Sgt. Brian Rand believed he was being haunted by the ghost of the Iraqi man he killed.

The ghost choked Rand while he slept in his bunk, forcing him to wake up gasping for air and clawing at his throat.

He whispered that Rand was a vampire and looked on as the soldier stabbed another member of Fort Campbell's 96th Aviation Support Battalion in the neck with a fork in the mess hall.

Eventually, the ghost told Rand he needed to kill himself.

According to family members and police reports, on Feb. 20, 2007, just a few months after being discharged from his second tour of duty in Iraq, Rand smoked half of a cigarette as he wrote a suicide note, grabbed a gun and went to the Cumberland River Center Pavilion in Clarksville, Tenn. As the predawn dark pressed in, he breathed in the wintry air and stared out at the park where he and his wife, Dena, had married.

Then he placed the gun to his head and silenced his inner ghosts.

"My brother was afraid to ask for help," said April Somdahl. "And when he finally did ask for help the military let him down."

Since the start of the Iraq war, Fort Campbell, a sprawling installation on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, has seen a spike in the number of suicides and soldiers suffering from severe post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
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At his family's behest, he finally sought counseling at a hospital near Fort Campbell. He later told his sister the waiting room was full of soldiers who went in for 10-minute visits with a psychiatrist and came out with prescriptions for pills.

The psychiatrist spent nearly two hours with him and wrote an evaluation that suggested he not return to battle, Somdahl said. But that paperwork never made it to his commanding officer. That Sunday, Rand was told his unit was deploying back to Iraq.
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Memorial Day *promote

Joking aside, there is NO better treatment for post traumatic stress disorder than psychotherapy with MDMA sessions.

http://www.mdma.net/alexander-shulgin/mdma.html

Graphology starts with the implicit assumption that whatever metaphors, symbolic meaning, or nuance that the features of a person's writing bring to mind are necessarily descriptive of the writer as well. This type of faulty thinking is present in most all forms of divining as well. So I'd say comparing this to a psychic who does cold-reading is not too far off the mark now that I think about it, because even THEY have a certain established methodology/set of guidelines to make these bogus claims or "guesses". Certainly there's a methodology to graphology, but this was only added recently with the onset of psychology to make it appear as a seemingly valid area of study and once again with the onset of computer technology to add to the air of respectability/seriousness normally enjoyed by other proven sciences. Before that, graphology was no different than any other form of divining (which it's roots are clearly in) in the sense that the claimed "expert" uses free association/symbolism to make a purely allegorical interpretation for the subject.

Thing is, there's also many different branching schools/types of graphology and graphologists now, each with it's own set of guidelines towards divining "the true you", making the whole thing even more confusing for a prospective employer/customer seeking to use these methods. One graphologist might show me to be a compulsive-liar who, by use of his methods, has discovered me to be sexually abused as a child without my own knowledge JUST by my handwriting mind you; while at the same time another may have me pegged as being a paranoid closet-gay with post traumatic stress disorder and violent tendencies towards a perceived enemy. Both equally false and outrageous. One school of thought may have slanty letters as being "passive-aggressive" while for another big-bubbly letters mean that. The whole thing is just utterly vague and ridiculous and subjective and people's lives and reputations are certainly affected by this process which is shown to have no strong empirically demonstrable links. The fact that it's actually legally used/endorsed in big corporations and has won favor in certain courts adds to the illusion of credibility. Also I would just like to add graphology is not to be confused with forensic analysis of handwriting used to investigate crime scenes, etc.

I agree with much of what you say Messenger, in that this could've been more thorough. I think it's more of an indication towards the ridiculously grandiose nature of graphology itself and what it claims to be capable of though. The initial premise of determining personality through hand-writing seems faulty enough, now attaching someone's job based on that ill-gotten, vaguely perceived personality based on largely stereotype makes it even faultier. He was a willing participant, he agreed to the parameters and that said "experiment" was a fair approximation of what it is he does, in an effort to prove his art true, and he failed. At least that's my take on it.