08: Combat Veterans: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Addiction with Dr. Jessica Naughton
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Addicted Mind podcast. This week, we are talking with Dr. Jessica Naughton, a Clinical Psychologists who has years of experience working with combat veterans dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Many veterans struggle with addiction that also suffer from PTSD. Now we know that PTSD can be one of the underlying causes of substance abuse since addictions spring up as a way to deal with PTSD symptoms.
So how can we care for veterans as they navigate PTSD symptoms? The good news is that the stigma around mental health disorders is rapidly changing. Now more than ever before, there are people like Dr. Naughton who have the resources to help veterans and their unique experiences of trauma and addiction. Help is here! Listen to see just how much we can do for our Veternas.
- We talk a lot about PTSD, but what exactly is it?
- Trauma for combat veterans cannot be processed in the moment.
- Symptoms were actually an adaptive change to help veterans survive.
- Diving in on why certain people deal with PTSD and others do not.
- Treatment is becoming less stigmatized.
- Dr. Naughton explains why trauma focused and addiction focused therapy is a delicate balance.
- Learn the difference between exposure and cognitive therapy treatments.
- If you or a Veteran you know is struggling, go to the VA. They have the resources and the systems in place to help you.
If you are a Veteran struggling with PTSD, please reach out to The Veteran’s Crisis Line at https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/
The Crisis Line Phone number is
1-800-273-8255
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. My name is Dwayne Austerlund, and I'm your host of the Addicted Mind podcast, and this is episode 8. |
| 0:12.0 | We have a great guest today. Her name is Dr. Jessica Notton, and she is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in working with combat veterans who are struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, or also known as PTSD. |
| 0:29.1 | And I'm really excited that she's going to be on the podcast today because one of the things that I've seen a lot is veterans come in who are dealing with some type of addiction. |
| 0:39.2 | And underlying that addiction is post-traumatic stress disorder. So here they have all the |
| 0:44.8 | symptomology of post-traumatic stress. And we're going to go into detail what that is and what that |
| 0:50.5 | looks like. And then they're trying to cope with it by either using a substance |
| 0:55.4 | or a behavior to deal with all the all the symptomology, to deal with, you know, all the mood swings, |
| 1:03.3 | the intense emotions, the nightmares, unable to sleep, all those kind of things. And they turn to |
| 1:08.6 | an addiction to cope. So I'm very excited she's |
| 1:11.4 | gonna she's gonna talk about how they at the VA how they work with this and and and how |
| 1:17.3 | they treat it and what are some of the things that they do to help our veterans get better and |
| 1:23.3 | do better and thrive if they're struggling with this issue. So very excited. Stay tuned and I hope you |
| 1:29.8 | enjoy it. So I'm very excited to have our guest today. Her name is Dr. Jessica Nutton and she |
| 1:37.4 | specializes in combat PTSD. She's a clinical psychologist and I'm so excited that you're here. So do you want to introduce |
| 1:48.2 | yourself? Yes, I'm very excited to be here. As you were saying, I'm going to be starting again |
| 1:54.9 | at the Long Beach VA in the Combat PTSD program. I did my previous internship and fellowship |
| 2:00.3 | training there in the Combat PTSD program. So I'm previous internship and fellowship training there in the combat |
| 2:01.6 | PTSD program. So I'm excited to be back in that role and also coordinating with the |
| 2:07.1 | substance abuse treatment clinic to get help to our veterans suffering from both PTSD and |
| 2:12.3 | substance use addiction problems. Oh, great, great. So I'm going to tell the audience a little bit about how we met. |
| 2:21.0 | Our kids were going to the same school, and we bumped into each other, and we started talking, |
| 2:26.9 | and I found out that you were a clinical psychologist and that you specialized in combat PTSD. |
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