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Expert Profile: Steve Brungard

Expertise:  After five years of training focused on post trauma and related issues, I did more than collect a few diplomas; I graduated from victim to survivor. It is that personal immersion and accomplishment that brings me to allexperts.com and provides you with an ally.
I hold an associates degree in social science, [Harrisburg Area Community College] and a bachelors degree in social science along with a counselor training certificate in chemical dependency [Penn State University]. I also hold a commission as a Chief Warrant Officer in the United States Army [honorably discharged] and the best training ever given to any helicopter pilot on earth. It was with that commission and training that I served two tours of duty in Southeast Asia from 1968 to 1970 where I saw much of what happens when a human society disintegrates and human beings are overwhelmed.

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What do you like about this subject?  Talk about teachable moments!! Even though this flower of opportunity is a grand one; I can still wish that the nettle of disaster which spawns its growth were not so grand itself.
What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?  This field can greatly enhance and guide that field of endeavor in which we all strive to become a more fully developed human being, a person who can wisely and philosophically manage the unwanted and even the unthinkable moments of human experience. The flower of opportunity (above) is to become a greater person and to share that growth with other
Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:  Only in recent times have we learned that the brain changes in response to stress and even more to traumatic stress. These changes are meant to help us endure and to survive the moments in which we need them but the changes endure beyond those moments and easily become confusing to the victims, their family members, and to caregivers as they underlie many of the symptoms that form this syndrome.
Something controversial or provocative about this subject  Always controversial is the diagnosis of and the extent to which we should consider PTSD and PTSS in the analysis of "being" and "functioning" following events that have overwhelmed a person or a group of persons. My position is that all the lessons learned from overwhelming events can be applied even to moments of everyday stress and we can well serve our fellows by not allowing legalese to limit
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(1ofMany on 08/27/08)
Thanks Steve, I will continue to do what I gotta do.
(Robert on 08/25/08)
Thank you for the info and explaining it in terms an overloaded brain can sort of understand =).
(vicki on 08/12/08)
Thank you for your prompt response. I will share it with my daughter as we both search for internal resolution of this tragedy.
(Patti on 08/13/08)
precise responses for a difficult problem
(Laurent on 07/05/08)
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Recent Answers from Steve Brungard
2008-08-25  service connection Hello Robert; The VVA www.vva.org is likely the best help you will find when you launch a service connected claim. Since you already have the time under your belt, a claim filed while in patient at...
2008-06-23  I NEED YOUR HELP NOW! Hello Tanya; Use what you can control to manage what you cannot control. Save yourself from the decisions of others by making your own decisions. You are already using those axioms, wisely and well...
2008-06-13  PTSS after war and marriage Hello Gail; Your soldier gets an A Plus for truth telling. The part you might be missing is that he is afraid of bonding with any and all females. You just happen to be among the any and all female...
2008-05-31  I think I might be suffering from post-traumatic stress Hi Michelle; The symptoms you have described are common when stress overwhelms the natural system we use to process thoughts, feelings, memories, input from conscience and information received from...
2008-05-15  PTSD and an exaggerated startle response.. always together? Hello Jennifer; "how highly correlated are these two things, really?" A high correlation due to particular anatomical and chemical changes that occur in the brain as it works to help you survive...
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