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Please note that I do not accept posts sent from agents, publicists, or assistants. Thank you for the light you share. Mindfulness therapy might help veterans with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. Mindfulness exercises that include meditation, stretching, and acceptance of thoughts and emotions might help veterans with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder find relief from their symptoms.

A new collaborative study from the University of Michigan Health System and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System shows that veterans with PTSD who completed an 8-week mindfulness-based group treatment plan showed a significant reduction in symptoms as compared to patients who underwent treatment as normal. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or MBCT, combines the practice of cognitive therapy with the meditative approach of mindfulness that stresses an increased awareness of all thoughts and emotions. The study was published online today in Depression and Anxiety. "The results of our trial are encouraging for veterans trying to find help for PTSD," says Anthony P.

King says the most noticeable area of improvement for patients in the mindfulness group was a reduction in avoidance symptoms. David Foster Wallace on Life and Work. Hundreds of Ways.