Friday Health.mil News Round-Up: First Lady: Mental Illness Should Carry No Stigma; Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy helps resolve PTSD

The following articles were recently posted on Health.mil:

First Lady: Mental Illness Should Carry No Stigma

March 13, 2015

The military reaches out to assist troubled service members, and helping people with mental health issues “is what we’ve got to do for every single person in our own lives,” First Lady Michelle Obama told attendees at a conference here today.

As part of the White House’s Joining Forces initiative, the first lady addressed mental-health professionals at the “Give An Hour” conference at the Newseum.

Full Story: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/03/04/First-Lady-Mental-Illness-Should-Carry-No-Stigma

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy helps resolve PTSD

March 13, 2015

If you think you are suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, a new form of help is available at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, or LRMC, where they can recreate the look, sounds and smell of a deployed environment to help you revisit and cope with events that have affected you so profoundly.

Full Story: www.health.mil/News/Articles/2015/03/09/Virtual-Reality-Exposure-Therapy-helps-resolve-PTSD