EMDR treatments for PTSD

A Spouse Calls reader who suffered from PTSD wrote recently to tell me that she had found relief from her debilitating symptoms through eye movement desensitizing and reprocessing (EMDR). She had been following the Spouse Calls blog regarding PTSD, and wondered if her experience could help others.

A story by Steve Mraz in Stars & Stripes details how medical professionals at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany are being trained to administer EMDR to returning veterans. The treatment has been around since the late 1980's. 

Looking homeward?

Where is "home" during a long deployment? Do you stay at your assignment, or is it better to go to be near your family. I asked readers, bloggers and other military spouse friends this question.

Obviously, this is a subject near to our hearts. I filled the August 26 Spouse Calls column with the first wave of responses, but the e-mails kept coming.

Please keep posting your thoughts, and reading other spouses' ideas, on the blog. Here are a few of the great answers I got from some of you via e-mail:

Tune in to spouses on internet radio

The voices of military spouses can be heard around the world via internet radio. For the August 12 Spouse Calls, I talked to the women behind three online pod casts: Navy Wife Radio, Army Wife Talk Radio and Military Spouse Talk Radio.

Important issues, encouragement and humorous stories all make appearances on these programs. Celebrity guests are not unusual, but most feature military spouses who have something to share with the spouse community.