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Ability or Disability A Blessing or a Curse?My up close & personal

I was 23 when I had my rst child, Roy.

He was a premature baby and in a way

so was I. Roy was kept on a ventilatoror the rst week o his lie and was

diagnosed later as a miracle baby. The

doctors, who at rst gave him very ew

chances to live, and us very little hope,

released him rom the hospital almost 3

months later as a perectly healthy baby

who will catch up with babies his age

no more than in 9 months o time.

Today Roy is 15 years old and is

diagnosed with quadriplegic Cerebral

Palsy. Cerebral Palsy is a pretty wide,

general umbrella like diagnosis or

a chronic condition mostly aecting

muscle tone to various degrees caused

by lack o oxygen to the brain generally

beore, during or ater bir th. My Roy has

a severe orm o CP. He is completely

dependent on others or every basic

care and needs, his speech is heavy and

he has to use about the triple or more

energy that we are using or every

breath he takes. These examples are just

ew o my Roys disabilities and i we

had time or i needed, I could go on and

bombard you with so many challenges

he aces in every moment o his lie

even when he sleeps.

Was it easy or me to accept my babys

orever condition being only 23? Did I

even know how to deal with it, let alone

be in peace with it? Everybody said that

Cerebral Palsy was a orever condition,

everywhere I read I read this is it! The

best I could get was 10 years, ater that

everybody knows that changes in thebrain are ew, rare, i any.

And since everybody knew, I believed

that, and I believed them, and all I

could eel was deep sadness, loss, and

horrible pain that didnt go away. Onthe outside it looked like I was dealing,

like I learned to live with it, but on the

inside I was crushed. I dedicated every

moment o my lie to care or my son

with laughter, songs, and tons o make

belie happiness. But at night I cried, I

couldnt breath, I was realistic, and my

reality was hopeless. I mean, according

to medicine, CP is a chronic condition,

one that cant change or improve.

As long as I adopted this realistic

belie I also adopted deep sadness, an

negative emotions such as anger, ear,

hurt and guilt that usually accompanyus in times o no way out. As long as

I adopted this belie and imagined a

hopeless uture I couldnt see a way o

I elt stuck.

I created happy moments or the sake

o my children, but I was broken rom

the inside with my realistic approach

or so I convinced mysel to be. I

gradually was slipping down rom lie

itsel, my pain aected my relationship

my health, my amily relations, mymental and emotional ability to conne

or to unction. I was a runaway in

disguise, until I couldnt do it anymore

My lowest point was the darkest and

the most blessed. It was the moment

which I chose to live knowing that i I

wont Id die young. At that moment

time there was no need to converse,

need to consult, no need or external

support. It was me, with mysel, and a

choice.

I chose to live, and get up a week

later I signed up or the practitioner

level o NLP and Time Line Therapy

knowing only one act about the

method. My mom got rid o severe

anxiety ater ew sessions with a

practitioner o NLP and Time Line

Therapy.

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(Continued rom page 1)

Through NLP and Time Line Therapy

I changed my lie. I literally changed my

mind, changed my thoughts, changed

my language, changed my reality. The

person that I am today is no longer the

person that I was then. Neurologically I

created new neurological connections

that created a new way o behavior

that created totally dierent outcome

in my reality.

Now that I have changed my mind I

was able to see the incredible journey

I was ortunate to take, I was able to

linguistically dene a dierent reality,

one that served me and my amily and

to invite this reality into my lie.

No, I couldnt magically erase my sonscondition or CP, but I created another

magic in my lie. I made a choice,

took action and got the tools that

allowed me to perceive a reality that

I not only could learn to live with, but

one that excites me and constantly

lls me with awe. I appreciated my

reality and created successes and

accomplishments rom this reality, and

I would never ever trade places with

anyone else.

You are holding the power to

choose how to eel about your

lives and through this choice to be

able to create a reality within the

uncontrollable events entering our lives.

The events would eel uncontrolled i

we dene them as such, and yet they

would appear as a magical journey o

opportunities to grow i we would

dene them that.

You have the power to create the

journey, to create the outcome, to

magically create your dreams. We

are the only creatures on this planet

(yet known) that were given an

incredible git no other creature been

given, and how oten we tend to orget.

We have the power to want, to dream,

to choose. A lion cannot choose to

stop being a lion and change his nature,

patterns, ways, or eelings. We have the

git o choice, the ability to choose how

we would live the rest o our lives, how

we would eel about the events in our

lives, and through that to evolve the

understanding that we have the power

to create new events in our lives as we

dream them to be.

My Roy has the most innocent, honest

approach towards lie. The way he

trusts his ather when hes being

carried knowing that he wont get hurt

reminds me to trust on a raw human

level with no pretend.

When he laughs with all his heart

and soul and sometimes drool while

laughing he teaches me how not to be

embarrassed by who I really am

And what does it really mean to laugh.

When he compliments someone or

thanks someone or helping him, he

teaches me true gratitude with no

pretend nor make belie. And i you

are eeling down, his caring sensitivity,

and sense o humor will make you eel

warm, loved and special immediately.

Roy has always been included with

kids his age, hes on grade level, and a

genius when it comes to languages, and

music, practices that hes passionately in

love with.

As part o who he is within his

disability, Roy will never hurt

anyone. And that was an awakening

understanding or me. In my journey

o growth, and excellence towards

becoming a better human being I

realized that all I ever want to become

is Roy. To have the git o making

people eel special, to care, to make

them laugh. To never hurt neither

physically nor emotionally any human

being, to always be content and happy

as he is with whom he is. To make a

dierence, to know you are touching

someones mind, hear t, and soul. To

me nothing is or granted and all is a

magical journey, or I was blessed to

have Roy as my model image.

I chose to share my story with you as

an advocacy or those who have an

apparent disability, and or those o u

who have an unapparent one. Choos

to create ability out o a disability, nd

the blessings in yoursel and others.

Surround yoursel with teachers, guidand tools you need, to make sure you

create the lie you dream to live. Be

the magnicent that you are. These a

exciting times, these are the times o

evolution. Greater times and tr iumph

are nally available to the human race

rom a place o humble, a place o

respect, o sharing, o caring, o pure

potentiality to innite prosperity.

Live, love and orever grow.Denny Ashkenazi

NLP Trainer, Coach o NLP, TLT, Hypno

and Founder o NOW

Member o the American Board o NLP

Member o the American Board o TimeLine Therapy

Member o the American Board oHypnotherapy

Denny Ashkenazi, happily marriedand mother o three, believes in themagnifcence o people and the studyo excellence through NLP. She is atrainer o Neuro Linguistic ProgramminTime Line Therapy, Hypnosis, and NLPcoaching. She is also a Reiki 1 Reiki 2Healer. In her personal journey towardexcellence and success she encountereseveral techniques that transormed helie and allowed her to ulfll her potentand to become a successul woman in areas o lie.

For inormation and supportor Cerebral Palsy see listing oorganizations on page 11.


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My journey through PTSD began

some years ago and with hindsight rst

became noticeable whilst I was servingin the military. I joined the army in my

late twenties and rapidly became bored

with the whole setup and decided

to go or SAS selection. I managed

to pass rst time and spent several

years working in high pressure hostile

environments in 9 Troop B Squadron

22 SAS.

Ater a period o time and several

injuries later I nally decided to

move on and do something whereI had more choice and reedom.

Within several months I had let the

military and was working as a Non

Governmental Military Advisor in

Arica. This is where my PTSD started

to evolve into an uncontrollable beast.

My rst marriage ell apart; I walked

out o the relationship and disappeared

into the Arican Bush or several years

leaving loved ones thinking that I had

been killed or worse.

Although my behavior and mental state

was deteriorating I ound a partner

who could see that there was a reason

or my aggressive exterior and that

there was a gentler human being

underneath struggling to get out. Ater

several years o managing my state

my new partner managed to get me

to realize that there was something

quite wrong with my behaviors and

that there may well be an underlying

problem. By this time I was working

in Iraq as a Security Adviser in a senior

management role. In around 2004 I

approached the NHS or help and was

passed rom pillar to post as there was

little knowledge o existing treatments

or providers. I met many like minded

suerers along the way and eventually

was taken into a well known UK charitythat provides respite or ormer military

suerers o stress related disorders.

It quickly became apparent that there

is little or no treatment that is designed

or PTSD or severe stress related

disorders. There are lots o very caring

people and organizations oering help

with the highest o intentions as well

as the sharks who want to prey on the

weak or their own personal gain.

I completely lost the proverbial plot

ater spending 2 weeks in the care o

a specialist stress charity in UK. When

they told me I would have to ace up

to acts and take the drugs I decided

to change tack and carry out my own

research to save my mind.

Along my journey I looked into many

kinds o therapy and suggestions o

how to manage my state. All well and

good or someone to tell you whatto do when they havent experienced

the living hell and the pits o madness

themselves.

Ater several months o research and

admitting to riends that I wasnt well

I came across a riend o a riend who

was a lie coach and was also helping

people with PTSD and stress related

disorders. During all o this time I

continued to work in Iraq where I was

a Senior Security Adviser in the red

zone.

The riend o a riend, Mick Stott, was

also ex military. The release to be

counseled by someone who spoke

the same language was unimaginable!

Regardless o the curative eect o his

treatment I elt so much better or just

being amongst my own. Desperate,

and slightly doubting, I met with

Mick. Ater the rst session I lost mynightmares and fashbacks in one day.

Two more sessions were enough to

see me waving goodbye to my PTSD

demons. Like George Foreman, I was

so impressed by the results that I got

trained up and together Mick and I

now run Talking2Minds a charity with

the sole aim o treating people with

PTSD.

Mick had been a Senior Physical

Training Instructor in the British Military

Academy at Sandhurst. He had come

up through the ranks to become a

Captain in the PT Corps and had been

tasked by the MOD to investigate

civilian perormance enhancing courses

in order to increase pass rates within

the military or various courses.

During Micks years in the military

he had studied many disciplines and

philosophies and has picked the bones

out o those that work and added

them to some o the more modern

approaches. Mick has his own school

o personal development and therapy

(www.quantumnlp.com) that is linked

very closely with talking2minds (www.

talking2minds.com) which conducts

the training and validation o all those

that work with talking2minds to ensure

PTSD Survivors Speak:

PTSD, What A Nightmare

BY BOB PAXMAN

(Continued on page 4)

Source: http://healmyptsd.com/Bob Paxman is the oundero talking2minds, a charityestablished to help people especially vets heal rom PTSDReproduced with permission


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ecacy. Mick has been recognized in

UK as being the leader in the eld o

therapeutic intervention.

How to make change

The talking2minds Synergy programme

uses a combination o 4 main disciplines

NLP, Reiki, Hypnosis and Time Line

Therapy that are cemented together

with perormance related coaching

norms. Having looked at NLP and the

way that it has been bastardized over

the years to t nancial and marketing

models we have taken it back to its

therapeutic beginnings and started again;

together with the coaching norms and

our own R&D interventions this hasproduced the mother o systems.

We have many clients that have had

been through the complete range o

treatments that are available in our

health service, which include some badly

delivered NLP and Hypno rom people

that have had the highest o intentions

but woeully miss the point with what

they do.

The ollowing is a very brie explanation

o the discoveries that we have made

when we compared and contrasted

our Synergy programme with the other

systems available:

CBT

CBT was designed or anxiety and

depression not severe stress related

disorders. Change the way you do

things and you change the way that you

think about that thing, it can take years

to desensitize a traumatic memory.

CBT is based on Pavlovs dog 1960s

stimulus response system.

EMDR

Designed by an NLP Practitioner and

initially only taught to medical Doctors.

Not designed or PTSD. It utilizes a

gentle exposure to a trauma. Similar to

CBT and can re traumatize the client as

they connect with their memories. Not

or those that are AD. It can work with

very visual people over time.

EFT / TFT

Uses acupressure on certain areas

allowing certain energy movement

around the chakras.

The key to this discipline is Meta

Modeling and identiying the correct

Gestalt /what memories.

Counseling - Non directive, i.e. no

interventions

Psychotherapy - Non Directive, i.e.

no interventions

With these therapies and others they

use an extrospective approach that

encourages the change to happen on

the outside. Our Synergy programmeuses an introspective approach that has

the client search or the changes to be

made on the inside and this is achieved

by connecting with the clients model

o the world. Many existing systems are

deployed over long periods o time and

may even orm dependencies as they

dont completely remove or rerame the

trauma. This in a nancial context leaves

the client suering or years or or li e

which equates to vast sums o moneyand ties up therapeutic resources. In

UK the NHS is struggling to cope, as

time goes on the problem will worsen

to astronomical proportions unless it

is checked. Since the Falklands confict

we now have in the region o 100,000

ormer military that are suering rom

severe stress related disorders. This

only takes into account those who have

been identied and diagnosed. There

are thousands that suer in silence untilthings go terribly wrong or them. The

civilian population suering rom severe

stress related disorders is in the 100s o

thousands. The problem in the United

States is reported to be even bigger.

We know rom experience that the

root cause o a trauma is not the

memory o the trauma itsel, instead

it is the emotions that are connected

to that trauma that makes it disturbing.

Unhook the emotions and all that is le

is a memory. We go back to root caus

with the client, identiy the rst time

that they experienced an emotion and

assist them quickly to understand and

neutralize that emotion. The key to thi

phase is identiying the correct Gestalt

with Meta Modeling and using thecorrect intervention to acilitate chang

Talking2minds also has an internet bas

product that assists us to lead those

into therapy that have severe aversion

problems and oppressively low esteem

that can be deployed by telephone,

email, Skype and ace to ace. Our 3

and 5 day courses not only rerame

the clients model o the world, they

allow the clients sel esteem to be re-built and or goal setting which installs

direction and purpose that has invaria

been lost due to the illness.

Bob is the Founder o Talking2Minds and

has spent that last 2 years studying and

developing the Talking2Minds product

and ethos in order to provide the correc

help and support or those that need

it. He is ormer Royal Engineers and B

Sqn SAS who has served in many hostileenvironments worldwide, both as a servi

member o the armed orces and as a

private security management proession

He has spent over 20 years in hostile

and high pressure environments. Bob is

currently studying or the Synergy Traine

qualifcation in order to urther the

Talking2Minds intervention research and

development programme.




The creation o anything in our lives

begins in us. Creativity is one o ourmain purposes in lie, whether it is artor personal relationships etc. It is up to

us whether or not we ulll anythingthat we aspire to. The creativity has aunique quality: when we let it lead usorward, we eel ull o passion to live

and ull o vitality. We nd in our selvesthe power that we didnt know wehad. Using Time Line Therapy we canreconnect to this power source that is

within us, and use our abilities at best

capacity in order to create what wereally desire.

One o my clients, a successul man inhis 50s that went through the TimeLine Therapy session elt that even

though he had a supporting and lovingamily and a good job, something yetwas missing in his lie because he didntenjoy anything. Is seemed or him that

he achieved every goal he had, climbedevery mountain, and still it didnt givehim the sense o satisaction and joy.

During the session, he dealt witheelings o loneliness rom hischildhood, and we worked on hislimiting belies about intimacy and

being loved. Ater letting it go, his ace

changed and it seemed to be like

something was lighting up in him. Whilehe created his outcome, he was ull ovitality and seemed to look and eel

younger even the way he talked asi 20 years dropped rom him in a ewhours. He reconnected to his personalpower source, what he didnt do or

a very long period o time. He knewexactly what his next mission is. Itwas an amazing eel o joy just thinkingabout starting it, and elt the passion to

get it started.

What we create may depend onthe emotions that we have, and the

more positive they will be the morepositive our outcome and creationwill be. Ater the cleaning o negative

emotions during Time Line Therapyprocess, it may look or eel like a littledoor was opened in our heart thatenables us to reconnect to our abilities

and to our power source. It seems thenthat nothing can stop us rom creatinganything we want and ater dealingwith limiting decisions we return to

ourselves the power to choose whatwe really want to create in our livesand just do it. The reedom o negative

emotions and limiting believes makes

us lighter, and then only the sky is thelimit or what we can achieve, i there is

any limit at all.

Liz Sova Damin

Certifed Trainer o NLP & TIME LINETHERAPY & NLP COACHING

www.leshed.co.il

BY LIZ SOVA DAMIN

Time Line Therapy As A Process o Creation

What our Graduates are Saying About Time Line TherapyCounseling patients was like taking random shots in the dark beore. With Time Line Therapy techniques, my patients can now

achieve more consistent and long-lasting emotional resolution, and signifcant improvement in their physical well being.

Dr. Susan Chu, Family Physician & NLP TrainerTime Line Therapy techniques are the oundation o quantum healing. They empower the patient to release uncomortable

emotions, change limiting belies, and create the uture they want and deserve. Because o their eectiveness and time

eciency, theyre the key to working with managed care. Dr. Bill Martin, Ph.D.

Time Line Therapy techniques are a giant leap orward or the psychological community. By quickly getting to the heart o ones

issues, Tads work signifcantly cuts down long-term psychotherapy.

Dr. Joe Kovach, Psy.D., Calumet College o St. Joseph

Ive been a physician or 30 years, and Id investigated many psychological programs. Time Line Therapy techniques are the

very best that I have ever seen. Its incredible what it can do.

James Taylor, M.D., Redondo Beach, Caliornia


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The Benefts o Time Line Therapy

BY SCOTT WHITE

The concept o Time Line Therapy

is an ancillary orm o Neuro Linguistic

Programming (NLP) and Ericksonian

Hypnosis. This concept was rst

developed in 1985, by Tad James. His

ideas were then produced through

his rst book, Time Line Therapy and

the Basics o Personality which was

published in 1988. The basic concept

ollowed in Tad James theories on

therapy is that it helps describe the

human experience with time. This

therapy has the potential to make

sense o your temporal (pertaining to

time) experiences. It also proves to

change your perception o negative

experiences that you have endured

during your lietime. With this

inormation, you can create a more

meaningul uture by understanding

human temporal experience. Everyone

has their own time lines, which is

basically the method your unconsciousmind tends to encode and store your

past memories. With your time line,

you learn to dierentiate between a

past memory and a uture dream; with

the time line being an unconscious

process, that you will seldom be aware

o its unctioning. This orm o therapy

keeps working throughout your lie,

recording and storing whatever events

and memories you come across.

The benets o Tad James therapeutic

techniques that have been discovered

are that it is nally possible or one to

resolve any and all signicant events

that occur in a persons lie. Along with

this, it is possible to release whatever

negative thoughts or emotions a

person may have associated with those

memories. These negative emotions

can be erased rom ones memory

both quickly and easily within a short

period o time. The main reason one

employs temporal therapy is to release

negative thoughts. I a person keeps

negative thoughts pent up within them,

a time will come when these eelings

o anger can no longer be contained

and they will release the anger rom

their past memories, perhaps on others

or themselves. This anger proves to

be destructive to the person and may

only bring about problems throughout

their lie. With the help o this orm

o therapy, it is possible to eliminate

limiting decisions.

These limiting decisions may include

thoughts that one is not smart enough

or that they will never be successul.

These attitudes are developed because

o a wrong decision made at some

point in a persons lie. Everyone is sure

to have gone through some incident

in the past, where a dierent decision

made then would have lead them to

a dierent position or situation today.

So with the help o Tad James therapy,

one reevaluates their past to change

decisions they are limited with as ones

present behavior is usually dependant

on the decisions made in the past. All

the decisions one makes are stored in

the time line, with which it is possible

or one to access. Finally, the most

important benet o time line therapy

is helping you create your uture just

the way you want or picture it and

then actually helping you create that

experience so that it will happen in

the uture. It should be known that

the process o creating ones uture is

as powerul as the process involved

in the releasing o negative emotions

and clearing all limiting decisions.

These three techniques are collective

considered to be the major techniqu

o temporal therapy. It can be said

that this orm o therapy is a concept

in which the therapist employs the

knowledge he has on the storage o

memories. Consequently, the therapis

use this knowledge to nd out the

eect these stored memories produc

on the individual personalities o the

person.

People involved in Time Line Therapy

know that the thoughts that are store

in a person tend to mould and shape

ones personality and that with therap

our thoughts can help us build a bett

more positive uture or ourselves.

Scott White is a Personal trainer

Celebrity Personal Trainer

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From my experience, lie is ull o

choices and opportunities that areoten not paid enough attention to,

due to our negative emotions and

limiting belies. Time line therapy

is a excellent way o working with

Theta Waves o the brain in order to

make a better inner climate rom the

emotional point o view, so that our

intuition about events and people can

be more clear to us.

One o my students, a 25 years youngman, couldnt nd the right job, the

right girl, the right house so or a

long period o time he changed jobs

rapidly and didnt move rom his

parents house even though he didnt

like living there. During the Time Line

Therapy session, he neutralized

his negative emotions and limiting

decisions, as we specialized worked on

eeling worthy to have a better lie orhim.

During the Time Line Therapy

session, he dealt with his issues o

running away rom challenges instead

o dealing with them, ocusing on the

guilt he had about this issue in his lie.

Ater releasing the negative emotion

o guilt, he could deal with the limiting

decision that he cant handle any

challenge in his lie. Releasing thisdecision enabled him to see all the

times that he tries to satisy his ather

unsuccessully, and was the main reason

or the lack o motivation in his lie.

Using the TIME LINE THERAPY

technique, he could take the control

over his lie; deal with his past in a new

empowered way, while keeping a sae

distance rom the events that took

place in his past.

When his emotional climate became

positive, he understood what he really

wanted to have in his lie, and what job

he really wants. Ater the session, he

ound a job that he is very happy to do

and that allows him to live apart o his

parents.

Now he is one o my best students,

he already nished the NLP and TIME

LINE THERAPY courses on the

practitioner level, and has registered or

the Master Level course.

The way Time Line Therapy cleans

the inner negative experience and

makes it possible to respond to the

environment better, as intuition is a

very important tool in order to know

what is the best or us, and having the

ability to choose better rom all theopportunities that surround us.

Moshe Gerstner

Certifed Trainer o NLP

Certifed Time Line Therapy Master

Practitioner

BEGISHA AHERET ISRAEL

www.thetanlp.com

Time Line Therapy And Intuition

BY MOSHE GERSTNER


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Can Art Save the Life of a Veteran Battling PTSD?

DIARY OF A DISGRACED SOLDIER

Martin Webster was arrested ater heflmed ellow soldiers beating up Iraqis. Anew flm reveals how he went rom beingdesigned to kill to saving his humanity.

March 10, 2010Photo Credit: YouTube

Cpl. Martin Webster hadnt slept inmore than two days.

The night beore, he had killed aninsurgent during a re ght. With thesun up, thousands o Iraqis were riotingin the streets and taking out theiranger on Webster and the other 100

some British soldiers in his unit, the1st Battalion, Light Inantry, whichwas charged with maintainingorder in Al Amara, Iraq. They weremere days rom the end o theirdeployment.

The heat was unbearable -- over90 degrees rom dawn to dusk.Each soldier got a bottle or twoo water a day and had just about150 rounds o ammunition each.Their rules o engagement weredrated nearly 10 years early,in 1995, and were intended orNorthern Ireland.

But the soldiers had their mission,Operation Telic 3. On this day in March2004, it meant holding a governmentpalace in the city. They had beenunder siege or several days by Iraqisrustrated with deteriorating conditions.Some Iraqis threw stones at the troops.Others red rocket propelled grenades

(RPGs). Several youth even threwgrenades.

Webster was sent to overlook therioting rom a rootop. He took outhis personal video camera, which hebought on a military base, and startedlming. The camera rolled as a groupo his ellow military men chased atersome young Iraqis and returned withour o them as prisoners. The Iraqiyouth were then beaten with batons,

punched and kicked. A soldier walked

up to one o the prisoners and kickedhim between the legs.

During the lming, Webster laughedmenacingly and taunted the naughtylittle boys. It could have been justanother day o the occupation o Iraqbut two years later, in 2006, the videowas leaked to the British tabloid pressand was broadcast around the world.

Webster was arrested by militarypolice but all charges against him weredropped; he let the Army shortly ater

the media storm. A new documentary,titled Diary o a Disgraced Soldier,

ollows Webster ater his militaryseparation and subsequent strugglewith Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD).

In the lm, Webster talks about howthat two-minute video clip destroyedhis lie, but he doesnt regret lming his

tour in Iraq.

I thought at times it was ruining mylie, Webster, 34, told AlterNet. Butactually it was making me wake upand realize who I was, what I was andbasically made me realize the horrorso war and what people turn into inwar, including mysel.

The veteran said the video did haveone positive aspect: it woke people up

to the reality o war.

Im a soldier and I was designed to

kill, said Webster, who also served

two tours in Northern Ireland andanother in Sierra Leone. The Britishgovernment spent 12 years turning minto an angry killer and when I actedlike an angry killer and when it wasportrayed on TV, nobody liked it orcould handle it. Thats what a soldier idesigned to do.

According to Webster, the mainstreammedia today hide the reality o war oanother ront.

I believe that with the media blackouthat weve got now in Aghanistan, itmeans the general public cant see

whats actually going on. Anythingthat does get out is scripted andvetted, he explained.

Webster wanted to share hisside o what happened in Iraq. In2007, he approached lmmakersRichard Atkinson, Neil Coleand Chris Rowe to make Diaryo a Disgraced Soldier. Thedocumentary started o seeking

to explain and explore the beatin

incident and subsequent scandal,Atkinson said, but the storyevolved into ocusing on how

Webster coped with his PTSD.

There seems to be an awul lot oopinion rom media commentatorsbut not so much rom the soldiers

themselves who are, ater all, theones in the ring line, Atkinson toldAlterNet. Our aim was to give a voic

to a soldier who had been to war and

had been dramatically aected by hisexperiences out there.

Ater ollowing Webster or 18 monthAtkinson said the lm gets to theessence o what going through PTSDdoes to a person rom a soldiersperspective.

PTSD was recognized as a medicalcondition in 1980 by the AmericanPsychiatric Association but, according

to Atkinson, is vastly underestimated(Continued on page



by the authorities and misunderstoodby the public.

War is very messy and rarely goesaccording to plan, Chris Rowe toldAlterNet. The costs in every sense o

the word are high and, i we are going

to get involved [in a war], we should bevery sure the price is worth paying.

Its like Im constantly controlling ademon

A 2008 RAND Corporation studyound about one in ve U.S. militarymembers who served in Iraq andAghanistan suer rom PTSD or majordepression.

The documentary puts a human aceon this statistic. It includes video diarieslmed by Webster himsel in whichhe shows moments o intense rage.In one scene in the documentary,

Webster says he eels like he has twopersonalities. Its like Im constantlycontrolling a demon, he says. Later,he wonders aloud, Perhaps my truecharacter came out there [in Iraq].Perhaps I am an evil person. I dontknow.

Part o Websters recovery process

has involved art. In the documentary,Webster and ellow veteran LeeKamara are shown at a music concert

they held to raise money or homelessveterans, the Royal British Legion and

the charitable organization CombatStress.

But, in the lm, Webster realizes thatpeople arent interested.

They dont want to hear aboutwar and depression, he says in the

documentary. Nobody wants toknow. In the video diaries, Websteralso contemplates suicide and is himselhomeless or a period. He said hisPTSD completely overwhelmed [his]lie. The ormer inantryman said hesaw hallucinations o an Iraqi he killed.

War, or Webster, is itsel madness.

You take somebodys ood away, youtake somebodys water, you take awaytheir sleep, youre asked to basically

live like an animal. Youre asked to kill.Youre asked to do things above thecall o duty o a regular civilian, said theex-soldier said.

Further, Webster explained that PTSDisolates you rom society. During thelm, he says, Im still trapped within

these connes o this palace wall here,gesturing toward one o his paintings.

With Kamara, Webster ormed a non-prot or veterans called Voices o War

so soldiers can hold their heads upand not be ashamed, according to theorganizations website. The pair paint,write poetry and make music about

their time in Iraq.

Kamara, who served in Basrah, Iraq, saidhe dealt with PTSD through music.

Music takes me to a dierent placeand helps me relieve stress, Kamara

told AlterNet. I nd that being withthe piano on my own helps me have

happiness and peace.A new ather, Kamara recommendedother soldiers use art to channel theirmilitary experiences. Anything thatrelaxes [soldiers], he said, is a greatway o orgetting.

Lovella Calica, a multimedia ar tist,also encourages veterans with post

traumatic stress to use art as parto their healing process. She is theounder and director o the Warrior

Writers Project, a creative communityor veterans articulating theirexperiences.

Its worth a try, Calica told AlterNet.There are points in the processwhere it might be hard and it might bedicult. But I think you have to reallypush through that stu to get urther.

Calica, who has edited two anthologieso veterans writing and artwork,recommends that all veterans try

writing. Everybody can write , she said.Pen and paper -- just put it down, shesaid. Its a way to star t and there area lot o dierent art orms out thereand I think that you should try and seewhat you eel inspired by.

For Webster, painting proved helpul.[My] artwork has sotened. At rst itwas very, very ery. Very angry. Now iyou look at the artwork, its smoothedout, he said.

Calica, who has worked with about130 veterans and active-duty soldiers inabout 20 Warrior Writers workshops,said soldiers like Webster go through aprocess to change their activities andactions and belies when they enter

the military. But when they leave themilitary, she said, theres not such aprocess. They just leave.

[The soldiers] come back and theyre


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just like, they dont know what to dowith themselves, said Calica, who hasworked with Iraq Veterans Against

the War or about ve years. Theydont need how to relate to peoplesometimes. They dont want to come

out o their house. They dont want totalk about stu.

Changing rom an inantry soldier, roma trained killed into a normal humanbeing was dicult or Webster.

I dont kill anymore. I get up. I goto work. I might mix some cement. Imight have dinner at 12 oclock or halan hour. Boring mundane things, heexplained. Im not jumping out o tanksand using grenade rocket launchers.

Eerily, Diary o a Disgraced Soldierintersperses ootage that Webster tookin Iraq with video rom his lie in theUK.

Calica says that art can help veteransreintegrate into society, by giving themsomething that they can do with their

time and with themselves in their livesthat has meaning.

It helps them continue on and isntsomething thats just like normaleveryday lie, she explained.

In my experiences working withveterans, Ive seen how resilient theycan be and how much they can get

through and their strength.

Yet, according to Calica, the VeteransAairs (VA) department is not doingwhat it should be to treat PTSD.Theyre highly underunded and

theyre more oten than not pushingdrugs on people and I dont think thats

the answer. And a lot o veterans dontwant that. Its just not working, shesaid.

Where government ails, alternativemedicine steps in

The inability o the VA to adequatelydeal with PTSD is amiliar to manyVietnam veterans.

Sky David Pies, a 62-year-old Vietnamcombat veteran who lives in Carlsbad,

Cali. told AlterNet that veterans whogot out o line were given zombiedrugs.

The pharmaceutical companies arethe biggest drug pushers and theVA is like the addict, he said. Thatgovernment money just keeps up the

addiction. All o these anti-depressantshut down the ability to eel. They kill

the spirit.

While some o his ellow veteransencouraged Pies to apply or PTSDdisability, he denies he has PTSD. In hexperience, the symptoms like inabil

to sleep, contact with irrational worldetc., are all an advantage to the artist

I had many dream-like experiencesand would yell very loud every night,

many times a night, he said. Inability sleep is a plus to the artist.

According to Pies, The making oart or any creative orm o activity

that moves a ormer soldier out othe combat zone and into the selempowerment o a new lie is positiv

Bob Paxman agrees that art canbe helpul. The ounder and chieexecutive o the non-prot charityTalking 2 Minds, Paxman served in the

British militarys Special Air Services inmany hostile environments around

the world or 10 years and himselsuered rom PTSD.

For somebody thats very visual,painting would be antastic, Paxman

told AlterNet. He has helped about200 active-duty soldiers and veteranswho suer rom PTSD.

Like Martin Webster, Paxman soughtunorthodox treatment or his comba

stress. He ound a unique processthat uses hypnosis, therapeutic neurolinguistic programming (which is baseon solving conditions people eel

they have, rather than those they arediagnosed with), and timeline therapy(a orm o cognitive behavior therapy

that seeks to help people let go o paexperiences). According to Paxman, hPTSD symptoms disappeared ater oday o treatment.


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Webster completed the Talking 2Minds program last month and says heno longer has PTSD. In his opinion, the

treatment could revolutionize mentalhealth systems around the world.

The search or alternative treatments

or PTSD is partly rooted in the actthat governments are alling short inhelping veterans deal with their war

trauma.

According to Paxman, the Britishgovernment is providing adequate care

to active-duty soldiers or veteransreturning rom war. Its a systematicproblem, he said.

Webster concurs.

Its just neglect, pure neglect, Webstersaid. Its pure cr iminal negligence theway [the government] treats soldierssuering rom post traumatic stressdisorder. Were almost treated likesecond class citizens.

Across the Atlantic, Marvin Heskett isdealing with similar problems with theVA.

Heskett, a U.S. Army veteran, toldAlterNet the VA is poorly unded andlacks human resources to treat all theveterans rom all the wars. Heskett

was wounded Aug. 1 near Baghdad byan improvised explosive device (IED)

that destroyed his vehicle and killed aellow soldier.

In addition to about six to 12fashbacks a week, Heskett said hesleeps alone at times with all the lights

on and a loaded gun in his hand. Whilehe is seeking mental health care with

the VA, he says that ar t and music haveprovided an outlet that allows his mindto be ree rom the horrors o war.

Heskett received an art kit rom theWounded Artist Project, a nonprotorganization that creates and providesart kits or veterans. The art kits havebeen sent to military hospitals around

the country and Heskett said it has

been very useul.Back in England, Webster said he haslearned to orgive himsel and noweels in control o his own lie.

A year ago, I would get angry andirate. Now, I eel totally at peace withmysel, he said, adding that he hastotally let Iraq behind but will alwayshave memories rom his six months

there.

For the rest o my lie, Ill never orget

it, he said.

Webster claims the documentarysaved his lie. But he still has troublewatching the beating video itsel, whichhe describes as very, very disturbing.

I preer to watch it with the volumedown because the voice is sodisturbing. Its not a nice eeling. Its

very hard to put mysel back in thatposition, he explained. The way Imacting on that camera is not me.

Looking back, the ormer soldier saidhis unit was sent into Iraq without amission. We were sent up a creekwithout a paddle and we did the bestwe could, he said.

Webster said he hopes thedocumentary wakes people up. I thinkat the end o the lm, it says, Question

your media. Question your values.Question your government. Question

things. Dont just accept things. Dontaccept the way things are, he said.

Diary o a Disgraced Soldier made itsworld premier Nov. 14 at the CornishFilm Festival where it sold out or twoscreenings. The flmmakers are lookingor distributors to get the documentaryshown in the United States.


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