VHVtv is producing content with Sandy Dee and we are filming interviews in person, with our iPhones and editing on the iMovie and are a remote production team. As of October 2022, we started creating content, as Documentarians, with VetArt, the Veterans Art Project. We travel with the VetArt Team in California filming the VetArt Pop-Up Art Cafe events creating interviews with Veteran Artists. VHVtv is produced as Community Educational Access TV for the MidPeninsula Media Center HD Studio in Palo Alto, CA since April 2016 and have filmed many episodes in the studio and in 2019, we had guest hosts. Since March 2020, the beginning of the Covid 19 Pandemic, our production changed from in the Media Center HD studio to a digital remote production team creating Virtual Interviews. The Media Center in Palo Alto was reopened July 2022. #imovie #interviews #veterans
Unfortunately, there are so many Vets with few career prospects who have decided to augment their income by malingering and claiming trauma where there was only drama. The potential financial reward/compensation, tax-free, for life, has created a monster, and countless Vets who are not held in check by scruples are on the "PTSD" bandwagon.
Thank you.. ❤ Our dear vets taught drs what ptsd is and what all traumas birth, including unhealthy coping mechanisms. Great info as a ptsd gal from the war of assault.
I suffer from complex ptsd…it’s getting better bit by bit through Christ. For years nobody could help or drugs..but Yeshua is taking me piece by piece healing the broken bits. This veteran is correct…heal the cause not treat the symptoms. Evil destroyed my soul….the only one who could fix my soul is Christ.
Hi Manuel happy to here your still around I thought about you so many times wondering how your doing as I can see your doing good and I'm happy for you take good care of your self Annette
Thank you for your views on PTSD but as a Vietnam Veteran 1964,1965,1966, the PTSD DEMAN still lives within you no matter what Doctors and others say are do the Demam will always haunt you, but its okay you learn to keep going, and put your trust in God himself for guidance and help it's okay to cry, God bless you and your staff for helping us with PTSD.
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Such an empowering story. We need more veterans, addicts, homeless, and disability stories in this world. It brings me great joy to hear about the obstacles you overcame and to see that you are sharing it with others.
I grew up in the home of a combat veteran who served in three wars; the South Pacific Theater, Korea, and Vietnam. He had been a functional alcoholic for the duration of his twenty-three years on active duty. Upon his retirement, after being passed over three times for promotion to Full Coronel, he retired; That's when our lives as his children became unbearable. We never knew, when he came through the front door, what could happen. He could be in a joyful state one minute and he would transform into a raging maniac. The more he drank, the more vicious and violent he would become. When I was thirteen, I could no longer endure his brutal beatings. I felt like he was destroying my dignity as a civilized being. As I raised my fists, the look in his eyes expressed an evil I had never seen before. I got one right cross in that sent his dentures flying across the room, then he commenced a volume of punches that within seconds, my eyes were swollen shut. He continued to pound on my face until every finger and his thumb was broken on his right hand. By then, I was on the floor, lying in a pool of my own blood. He began kicking me over and over; I could hear my mother screaming, "Scott, Scott; stop, you're going to kill him." I don't know how many kicks my to head it took to knock me unconscious. I awoke hours later because I needed to pee. I couldn't see as my eyes were swollen shut. My bigs were broken, and when I was able to get my legs over the edge of my bed, I couldn't stand up. I peed on the floor and laid back down. My mother came down to check on me at some point and found a pool of blood on the floor next to my bed. She ran up to the second floor from the basement to wake my father. She told him I needed to go to the hospital. He told her, "No way. He can die for all I care." I joined the Army on November 8th, 1971. I was the Platoon Leader for the 4th Platoon of Echo Company and interviewed for Special Forces and Ranger Training before catching a Drill Instructor selling drugs to the men in my Platoon. I turned him into my Drill Sargeant, and he said he would take care of it. The next night, I was so severely beaten that I had to be hospitalized. Once I returned to my training company, I received death threats. While on my way back to my Company Area, I passed Military Records. I'd volunteered for Vietnam and figured if this is how the military treats its own; I changed my beneficiary on my G I Insurance from my Mother to the Angela Davis Defense Fund. She was going on trial in San Rafael, California for having been accused of smuggling guns into the Courthouse where she was defending some Black Panthers. Upon reporting back to Top, I was greeted by two CID Officers who escorted me to mental health where I was required to undergo a psychological examination. I was discharged from the Army with a less than Honorable Discharge. I did not attend my Father's or Mother's funerals. The VA would not diagnose my PTSD until the year 2014, forty-two years after ETS. They would not inform me of my diagnosis for two more years when after an explosive event in the office of a VA Doctor, I was escorted to Mental Health for another mental evaluation. Because they could establish traumatic events (my Father's abuse of me) I was not eligible for Service-Connected PTSD compensation.
Does your group offer advice and consent OUTSIDE of your group, e.g. Defense Contractors and other defense workers are often not considered RESERVISTS? The topic is Hate Crime Stalking against women, these men are snakes in the grass targeting women that are vulnerable #empowerment #publictransportion #firstamendment #oldcrows #metoo #economicviolence
Thank you, Sheryl Shaffer and VHVTV, it was a pleasure being interviewed! For more information about Susan J. Farese/SJF Communications visit sjfcommunications.com and for Haiku workshops: sjfcommunications.com/upcoming-haiku-workshops/. "Poetic Expressions in Nursing: Sharing the Caring" is available: sjfcommunications.com/shop/
How can become an 'artist in residence'? I'm a USMC vet with PTSD and I've become an artist 7.5 years ago. Taking par in my first show this weekend ;-)
This is an excellent, informative interview about the role of art in the military and Phyllis Thomas's unique journey in becoming an independent creative and healing practitioner. Great to hear about Veterans Helping Veterans TV. #creativeartists #veteranartists #spiritualpainting #PhyllisThomas #VeteransTV \
Thank you for your comment. We have produced 9 virtual interviews and have many more planned for 2021. Phyllis is a wonderful artist who helps veterans tap into their creativity to better cope with PTSD/MST. Creativity heals the soul.
It was a true honor to be your virtual guest. I am a "behind the scenes type of person, and you made me feel so comfortable. Your interview style gave me a sense of calm, where I could tell my story of using art to empower. Thank you so much, Sheryl. I appreciate you giving me the platform to illustrate the importance of art. Thank you so much!
Thank you Phyllis for your art and how you inspire veterans to create art in order to deal with PTSD and MST. You help others to create art and to heal invisible wounds.
She is amazing and a wonderful woman and inspires everyone who is lucky enough to meet her. You should be so proud! Elinor Otto is America’s longest working Rosie the Riveter. It is all about the empowerment of women,
