Tuesday Health.mil News Round-Up: Sport psychologists help athletes stay on track at Warrior Games and in life; DoD Observes National PTSD Awareness Day; Monday Motivational Message: The Green Tomato

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06/30/2015

Sport psychologists

Sport psychologists help athletes stay on track at Warrior Games and in life

It’s just minutes before a crucial wheelchair basketball seeding game at the 2015 DoD Warrior Games, and Army Sgt. Nicholas Titman is not with his team. A personal crisis back home with his partner in Fort Carson, Colorado, has him unable to take the court. A few minutes later, master resilience trainer–performance expert (MRT-PE), better known in this case as a “sport psychologist,” Ashley Jenkins tries to get him to focus on the task at hand: winning the game.

 

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DoD Observes National PTSD Awareness Day

National Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day observance reflects how PTSD became known as an “invisible wound of war” during more than a decade of combat, a Defense Health Agency official said.

 

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Motivational Monday

Monday Motivational Message: The Green Tomato

My great-grandfather, the late Eugene Jordan, was a Mississippi share-cropper, farmer, businessman and pastor whose wisdom far exceeded any education he ever could have obtained. I remember one time working with my great-grandfather in his tomato garden he said, "Hold up for a second and come here, son." He asked me, "Do you see these two tomatoes?" 

 

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