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United States of PTSD
Season One: Mental health concerns are on the rise in the United States. This podcast will look at the influencing factors contributing to the decline of our culture. With the rise of school shootings, political divisiveness, increasing levels of hate, and a chronic war of peoples' rights, we have entered a domestic war that never ends. Our podcast will look at whether this is done by design or is it an abject failure. We will discuss it from a clinical and common-sense perspective. Secondarily we will discuss ways to protect yourself from being further traumatized. Hosted by Matthew Boucher LICSW LCDP (licensed in RI) who has over 20 years of experience working with people who have addictions and trauma with a specialty of pregnant/postpartum women. Co-host Wendy Picard is a Learning and Development consultant with 15 years of experience, lifelong observer of the human condition, and diagnosed with PTSD in 1994.
Season Two: Is joined by Donna Gaudette and Julia Kirkpatrick BSW. Julia is currently working on obtaining her MSW and her LCSW. She is a welcome addition to the podcast.
Season Three: Cora Lee Kennedy provided research and worked as a temporary co-host. Dr. Erika Lin-Hendel joins as a co-host for season 3.
United States of PTSD
S 2 E 13 All eyes on Rafah
Please welcome guest speaker Alex Jacques. Alex Jacques is a fine jeweler whose work is inspired by a love of nature and a dedication to acute detail. He is an independent activist for social justice and desires positive changes in our political landscape to better our communities in meaningful ways. Alex has close family friends who live in Gaza and hears the realities of daily life from them.
Alex and Matt continue to have the much needed discussion about the blatant and ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. The situation has reached terminal critical levels, as the remaining people of Gaza have been funneled, by design, it was appears to be an attempt to continue with the ethnic cleansing.
As we stated in the podcast it is ALL of our responsibility to stop this genocide and hold the complicit powers accountable. What are you doing to help? Remember there is no neutrality in genocide.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-atta-remove-family-from-nightmare-of-gaza?utm_campaign=p_cp+fundraiser-sidebar&utm_content=anyword&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
https://definitelyvita.substack.com/p/free-palestine-resources
2021 Islamophobia in Review: United States - Bridge Initiative (georgetown.edu)
US hate crime charts: Anti-muslim and antisemitic incidents are already at record highs | CNN
Video shows IDF soldiers waking Palestinian kids to photograph them in dead of night | The Times of Israel
‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
Israeli forces use five Palestinian children as human shields | Defense for Children Palestine (dci-palestine.org)
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Artwork and logo design by Misty Rae.
Special thanks to Joanna Roux for editing help.
Special thanks to the listeners and all the wonderful people who helped listen to and provide feedback on the episode's prerelease.
Please feel free to email Matt topics or suggestions, questions or feedback.
Matt@unitedstatesofPTSD.com
Matthew Boucher LICSW LCDP
Host
Donna Gaudette
Co-host
Dr. Erika Lin-Hendel
Co-host
Julia Kirkpatrick
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Wendy Picard
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