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By admin on March 12, 2012
Okay things are beginning to come out about this case … SO LET’S LOOK AT THEM….
#1 Very significant is that two years ago this soldier suffered Traumatic Brain Injury. Anyone who has had a brain injury should NEVER be given an antidepressant according to neurologist, Dr. Jay Seastrunk. The brain is far more vulnerable to seizure activity after such an injury and taking a stimulant (An ANTI-depressant or the opposite of a depressant IS A STIMULANT!). Remember that a manic psychosis is a continuous series of seizures in the brain which is basically what REM Sleep is also. (Keep that in mind as you read below about REM sleep.)
Posted in DrugAwareness.org Newsletters, Recent Cases Blog, Soldier Cases, SSRI Stories | Tagged AFGHAN SHOOTING, Ann Blake Tracy, berserk, Homicidal Ideation, iraq, murder, Rem Sleep, Soldier, Traumatic Brain Injury, violence |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on February 6, 2010
Aviles will always remember his smile.
Diego Valbuena, a 2006 St. Lucie
West Centennial graduate, had a big grin and knew how to make his younger cousin
laugh.
“He was like the life of the party,” says Nicole Aviles. “He
always had a big grin on his face.”
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Aviles, Brevard County, Fellow Soldiers, Fort Drum, Friday Morning, Ft Drum, Gunner, iraq, Jim Hunter, Loving Person, Military Police Officer, Murder Charges, Paragraph 11, Port St Lucie, Prozac, Scofield, Second Degree Murder, Soldier, St Lucie West, Tcpalm, Valbuena, Wptv Newschannel 5, York Authorities |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on January 3, 2010
O’FALLON, IL (KTVI-FOX2now.com) – The
family of an O’Fallon, Illinois soldier who lost his leg in Iraq is asking
serious questions about treatment at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington,
DC. There’s been an unexpected setback in Specialist Chas Shaffer’s recovery.
Fourteen months after the incident, his father says he has regressed, and he
blames the medication he’s being prescribed by army doctors.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Anti-depressants, antidepressants, Army Doctors, Chas, Emotional Therapy, Family Worries, Groggy State, Illinois Soldier, Ktvi, Morning Staff, New Mobility, O Fallon Illinois, Overmedicated, Pain Meds, Prosthetic Leg, Soldier, Veterans Day Parade, Walter Reed Army, Walter Reed Army Hospital, Walter Reed Hospital, World War Two, Wounded Warrior |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on December 16, 2009
As soon as Arylane Ala walked into her house that day
in 2007, she saw blood a red pool stretching from the coffee table to the
fireplace. Then she saw her youngest son face down on the floor, an antique
rifle by his side.
She didn’t approach his body, she said: “I didn’t
want to see his face … his expression.”
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Ala, anti-depressant, antidepressants, Binges, Bipolar, Coffee Table, Courier Journal, Emergency Protective Order, Fiancee, Fort Knox, Helicopters, iraq, lithium, Military Veterans, Nursing School, Nutritional Supplements, September 13, Soldier, ssri stories, SUICIDE, Ten Broeck, Ungar, Workouts |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on December 16, 2009
Jon Greene
knows he might choke up when he reads aloud a certain name Saturday at
Mount Trashmore.
He lost Scott Alan Starr, a friend and colleague, to
suicide in August 2008. Greene was the commander of the Naval Surface Warfare
Center at Dam Neck; Starr worked closely with him.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Chesapeake, Chief Petty Officer, Dam Neck, Father Figure, Fourth Year, Gilchrist, Hampton Roads, iraq, Memory Of A Friend, Mount Trashmore, Naval Surface Warfare, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Navy Chief Petty Officer, Out Of The Darkness, Paragraph 11, Sailors, Social Worker, Soldier, SUICIDE, Suicide Support Group, Surface Warfare Center, Survivors Of Suicide, Virginian Pilot |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on December 4, 2009
Natalia Valbuena, 15, little sister of Spc. Diego A.
Valbuena, 23, one of the two Fort Drum soldiers found dead of stab wounds
Tuesday in their Evans Mills apartment, spoke Thursday by phone from her home in
Port St. Lucie, Fla. Her parents, Fernando and Guerty Valbuena, were too
distraught to speak to the press about the loss of their son, the second of four
children.
Family members of Spc. Valbuena and Spc. Waide T. James, 20,
Port St. John, Fla., spoke Thursday about the young men: their commitment to the
military, their friendship, their hopes for the future.
They also spoke
of the little they knew of their relationship with Spc. Joshua S. Hunter, 20,
Ona, W.Va., the fellow soldier now accused of their gruesome double murder.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged 10th Mountain Division, Ann Blake Tracy, Battalion, Double Murder, Evans Mills, Fellow Soldier, Fellow Soldiers, Fort Drum, Joanna, Little Sister, Motor Transport, Nephew, Ona, Port St Lucie, Port St Lucie Fla, Prozac, Soldier, Spc, Stab Wounds, Three Men, Times Staff Writer, Transport Operators, Valbuena |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on November 27, 2009
For years after
the parachute accident that ended his Army service, Cody Openshaw spiraled
downward.
He entered college but couldn’t keep up with his studies. He
had trouble holding a job. He drank too much. He had trouble sleeping, and when
he did sleep, he had nightmares. He got married and divorced in less than a
year. He had flashbacks. He isolated himself from his friends and drank
more.
“His anxiety level was out of this world,” his father said. “This
was a young man who got straight A’s in high school, and now he couldn’t
function.”
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Adverse Reaction, adverse reactions, Ann Blake Tracy, antidepressants, Army Service, Attacker, Classic Recipe, Compulsion, Delusion, False Accusations, Flashbacks, Nightmares, Openshaw, Painkillers, Parachute Accident, Paragraphs, PTSD, Sexual Assault, Sexual Attacks, Sexual Compulsions, Sleep, Soldier, Trouble Sleeping |
By Ann Blake-Tracy on September 20, 2009
Blaylock rests in plot S1 151, among his brethren — Armed Forces personnel who died the same day. In the grave to his right is Dennis Dildine, who had a career in the service followed by one as a church pianist, until diabetes claimed him in his sleep at 56. To his left is Louis Macko, a World War II veteran and ham radio operator whose body gave out at 87.
Born on June 13, 1981, Sgt. Jacob Blaylock was 26 years old when he died. Eight months after an explosion on a highway in Iraq killed two of his friends — Sgts. Brandon Wallace and Joshua Schmit — Blaylock took his own life with a pistol.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged antidepressants, Blaylock, Blue Jeans, Church Pianist, Club Friends, Dildine, Group Therapy, Jeff Wilson, Joshua Schmit, Lyden, Macko, Mourners, National Cemetery, Partied, Radio Operator, Raymon, Soldier, ssri stories, SUICIDE, Transportation Company, War Ii Veteran, White Orchids, World War Ii |