SDP Episode 12: Mental Health and PTSD
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Doc talks about mental health, and what you can do to mentally prepare yourself to be a sheepdog. He also discusses Post Traumatic Stress, and how to cope with it.
Tim Kennedy’s legend began at his local Army recruiter’s office on September 12th, 2001. His training to earn his Green Beret was featured in the book “Chosen Soldier.” Kennedy is now a Ranger qualified Special Forces Sniper with deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and multiple other deployments around the world. He is the only soldier to win the grueling 3 day All Army Combatives Tournament three times. Kennedy has a black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Modern Army Combatives. He is also one of the top ranked mixed martial arts fighters in the world, a position he achieved while simultaneously serving his country at the highest levels of special operations. He is currently ranked among the top Middleweights in the UFC. Tim has been featured on many television shows, most recently “Hunting Hitler” on the History Channel
Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.
Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars with Tim Kennedy on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Welcome to the Sheepdog Project everybody, Doc, Flying Solo Today. Tim |
| 0:18.7 | out saving the world. He'll be back soon. Hope everybody's doing well. |
| 0:24.3 | Before we jump in today, something I want to talk about real quick. |
| 0:28.7 | A really close friend of mine, somebody who's been a near and dear friend for 30 years or so. |
| 0:35.4 | Guy by the name of John Colker, good buddy of mine. |
| 0:39.4 | He is hiking the Appalachian Trail, the entire length of the Appalachian Trail. |
| 0:45.0 | A lot of people do that, I know that's what you're thinking. |
| 0:48.0 | What's significant about John is he's 54 years old and he's a cardiac arrest survivor so he was clinically dead he was |
| 0:57.5 | saved by CPR and an automatic external defibrillator and brought back to life, had a stent placed, had severe coronary artery disease at the time, woke up basically from a coma in the hospital and totally turned his life around became a triathlete and |
| 1:17.3 | started doing through hiking. |
| 1:19.8 | And he's hiking the length of the Appalachian Trail to draw attention to the fact that there are |
| 1:25.8 | organizations out there made up of heart attack survivor athletes. |
| 1:32.3 | The biggest one that he supports is called the Iron Heart Foundation. |
| 1:35.0 | John is just a few days into his hike at this point. He's going to be doing it for quite a period of time. |
| 1:40.0 | He took time away from his loving family and he is also taking time off work to do so. |
| 1:46.6 | So basically he's doing this on his own but every little bit helps. |
| 1:52.1 | If you go to heart hike dot org |
| 1:55.0 | sorry with that heart hike dot org or you check it out on Facebook just look for heart |
| 1:59.0 | hike on Facebook it's a group that'll take you to heart hike dotorg you can check out John what he's doing and you can donate every little bit helps Marie's not getting a salary so his family's not being provided for |
| 2:10.6 | John prepared for this |
| 2:13.4 | John prepared for this you know he's not asking for a handout but he's doing this to draw attention to this great organization the Iron Heart Foundation and to point out that you guys like him are out there and they're still and and ladies too are still living their lives |
| 2:25.3 | they're turning their lives around doing great things as triathletes as |
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