Operation PTSD: Veterans Healing Themselves Through Meditation | Erik Younger | TEDxWilmingtonWomen

22 Veterans will commit suicide each day due to PTSD.

Meditation can reduce the effects of PTSD allowing peace into a veteran’s life.

[Talahib]

I'm not a veteran but I feel him deeply and I'm sorry for him and for all the people suffering from PTSD like me.

[frankhartman]

Its tough! I don't have a clue what I'm doing now most of the time now! I miss the brotherhood!

[maseol]

With a tear in my eye, i feel you man, really feel you. 19 years in the army, 3 tour til Afganistan, Iraq and Kosovo. i can really related, but WE are not alone and We can get through this also, together Brothers and Sister.

[macintoshimann]

Trauma is very strange I can relate to much of what he spoke about wit his physical health. I developed a full blown movement disorder after a car accident. Science says its neural damage but I'm getting my life back through meditation. What I'm learning is every bad thing my body does is in response to trauma. The very promising thing is there doesn't seem to be limits on the healing despite what science says! More research please!

[anniewhite]

Powerful! He had everyone crying and clapping at the conference. Thanks for showing us masculinity and vulnerability can co-exist.

[minifix]

This is one of the most sincere, moving, and relevant talks I have ever heard. What a service he is rendering.

[nickieful]

Awesome. Thank you!! As a psychotherapist working with Veterans I have found it very difficult to get patients to attempt to even try meditation. I am sending your video to those. SO HELPFUL

[shannonolear]

This is so important. Thank you for your bravery.

[ahmadfarqualeet]

I have gone through PTSD
It's Soo much hard to go through PTSD in
People in countries like America recognize mental illnesses but no one here Recognize these illnesses....
We are not mentally but also physicaly Alone here
But My Father and family was able to recognize me and they supported me through intense periods.
It was an exceptional case but I wonder how many other people with PTSD go through in countries like Pakistan

[Vineeth..v]

This is the wisdom from experience. The is way out of pain and suffering and continue to help others.
Well deserved standing ovation.

[AlexiaVernon]

I had the privilege of seeing this talk live and Erik, and his message, have left an indelible imprint on me. Like Annie, I could watch this talk over and over again and continue to have new discoveries.

[jonneiss]

Please note that there are a wide variety of meditation techniques and if one technique does not work, there are others to try. Also, meditation practice is a process. It can take time to take hold. So, have patience with letting the process do its work. Meditation is a term that has created confusion. If you go out fishing in a quiet nice place in nature and just enjoy the day...that itself is a meditation on nature. The truth is, everyone meditates, we just don't use the term. Practicing meditation techniques, just enhances a natural process that everyone engages anyway.

[amybrown]

You are soooo correct!! It is so frustrating with the VA, who believe that more and more medication is the solution for everything when it’s Not. My husband has struggled for the past 6 mos after having Covid 19 which exacerbated his PTSD to a point to where he lost his job of 10 years as a police officer in our town, a job he loved!! This was and is no ordinary PTSD it carried along with it some severe and debilitating anxiety and depression. All he does is sleep all day every day. He says it’s his only relief from the emotionlessness that he says he gets tired of talking himself off of the ledge each and every day. I’ve searched and searched and searched since august 2021 for something that would help because the VA obviously wasn’t helping at all. He was on 7 different meds of which NONE were working in the least. And thank GOD I found a non profit organization that is going to pay for him to go and get treatment which includes 40 Hyperberic oxygen treatments and a more Holistic approach to blood tests. Because lord knows the standard doctors and labs in America who test our blood use a scale where the range of “normal” is as wide as the Empire State Building. Which is NOT EVEN CLOSE TO CORRECT.

[Siobhan]

God bless you. Thank you for your service...thank you for your story....thank you for your profound interest in healing yourself and fellow veterans. You are a true hero!

[pilgrimsvoyage]

Every school kid should hear this, maybe the US would be less war-pushing, less kids would die to become soldier.

[nemrak]

Erik Younger, your an awesome person! May i just say your a funny dude! I had some heartfelt laughs thank to you ❤ thank you for your service! May God bless you, heal you completely, keep you safe and use you to help all veterans get healing from their PTSD!

[AyaSkye]

Hope requires action. Outstanding work Erik! Thank you for your life. 🙌❤️

[anniewhite]

I wish I could like this talk 100 times

[tedxwilmington]

Such a moving talk, Erik. Just as powerful as I remember in person. What a pleasure to have you on the TEDxWilmington stage.

-evan

[waltergodsoe]

No, thank you. The only relief from PTSD I have ever known, were retreats held by Insight Seminars, meditation is at the heart of them. Though PTSD returns haunting me into old age.