Powerful video shows results of neurofeedback for Iraq War Vet and PTSD sufferer



We can talk about this, and we can show lots of graphs, but I think the next two videos will really give a good face to this I was T.A.D. to Fort Hood a month after the shootings happened. and I was subsequently assigned to the Warior Reset Program. An intensive outpatient treatment program for chronic PTSD and TBI and there I was able to do neurofeedback on a daily basis with their intensive outpatient folks. So I shot two videos, the first one I shot after the fouth session with Staff Sargeant Roberts and he signed a release and said this was fine, and Fort Hood looked at it and said we bless this as well too. The first one was shot after four sessions. I just asked him what do you think about neurofeedback. I turned on this little canon camera that ran for two minutes The second one though that we're going to see was shot after the tenth session. but it was shot immediately after he just finished watching himself. So let me just now -- because we had to embed the videos a little bit differently here. let me do what they trained me to do prior to you all coming in here Alright, this is staff Sergeant Roberts. Multiple deployments to Iraq, multiple loss of consciousness, exposure to approximately twenty to twenty five I.E.D.s with loss of consciousness maybe I think four or five times he reported. he's had two - fourteen month deployments. He was a Dallas police officer prior to entering, he's a reservist. and he had been in intensive outpatient treatment for the last couple of years at fort hood. And this was shot after the fourth session. Just pay attention to what he says and compare him how he is in the next one please. Hello my name is Staff Sergeant Roberts. and I'm currently doing the, uh, neuro, what's it called? the neuro something. Hell I don't know what it's called. but I was skeptical at first, and after trying it for a few sessions, I went from my normal hours of sleep between two to four hours, all the way up to thirteen hours one day now my sleep quality is improved. I fall asleep faster without medications. and I actually wake up refreshed. Now my sleep is currently at about six to eight hours. and I feel like I'm less iritable, less angry. and so I think this has really helped my PTSD a lot. I'm really grateful to have the opportunity to work on this thing and to test it out That's it. Ten sessions later he's just watched what you just saw. and after he finished watching it he turned away. Let's go for it. Let me think of something first. Are you already recording? Alright, I got a chance to watch the video today from whenever I first started. doing the neurofeedback. And, today, my last session, and I've noticed a really big difference in myself. before I saw the video, I noticed several changes, but after looking at both of the videos and then actually comparing the two, I noticed a really really really big difference. and, I'm really glad that I was able to see both of those videos, because if it was described to me the way I looked and acted before, I never would have really believed it. but actually being able to see the difference -- I think it's amazing. and plus it's proof that this actually works, and it works in a short amount of time. I think I've totaled it up to -- was it ten sessions? And out of ten sessions, I think I went from being a zombie, to being pretty close to normal. and once again I think our group was really lucky to have this software. this technology available for our class during the whole three weeks. and I feel really grateful to have been able to have done this it's really sped up my healing process. And I hope I can find somebody else who has this same software and keep at this for a little bit longer. I don't think there's any assessment tool that we have in psychology that can capture the emergency of that humanity. and I think that that is really what we see there. it's in his voice, it's in his affect, it's not captured in a PCLM score. It's not captured in a CAPS, it's not captured in a MINI, there's an emergence of kind of a humanness that we all respond to.