Dr. Kathy Platoni

07/20/2025

Combat Stress Summer 2025
Service and Sacrifice, No Matter What the Uniform

Our group of authors in this issue of Combat Stress offer amazing insights that are certain to change the lives of our readers by offering unique perspectives on understanding the stressors associated with putting on a uniform, along with reframing our thoughts into a more manageable perspective. That is why they contributed to this issue and why we exist, for you, our readers.
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05/26/2025

Please, please take a moment to view this video in memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice…a message from the father of one of those who lost his life to su***de after the Fort Hood Massacre. Howard Berry has passed on since this documentary was made by Judicial Watch….gone, but NEVER forgotten. This was filmed in 2017. Please share

On November 5, 2009, U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing thirteen people and injuring more than 30 servicemembers and civilians. Sgt. Joshua Berry was among the servicemembers injured in the attack. Following the massacre, the Secretary of Defense declined to recogni...

04/14/2025

“In the wake of tragedy” is something that occurs daily, even hourly, for law enforcement officers. The colossal amount of chaos, upheaval, horror, and trauma to which they are exposed exacts an incalculable toll on the psyche of these most bona fide heroes.

Saving their souls is the subject matter of one of the very most innovative and groundbreaking treatment approaches designed to diminish the impact of the emotional scarring and emotional devastation to which they are endlessly exposed, a growing problem of increasingly massive proportions over time.

The runaway success of the Restoration and Recovery Station: Support for First Responders During Mass Casualties, Natural Disasters and Civil Unrest by Drs. Sneha Shankar, Eamonn Arble, and Maurice Gardner is unquestionably, an absolute state of the art program that demands adoption across the land in the face of an alarming uptick in all things violent in the law enforcement community.

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01/13/2025

"In the 15 years since, nothing has changed. The Fort Hood Massacre is still considered an act ofworkplace violence and not a mass shooting. My efforts to overturn this have resulted in directthreats to cease and desist by two elected officials. Letters to former presidents have been sentback by the Secret Service “because they couldn’t be vetted.” There have now been ten morelives lost as a result of the heinous acts of the shooter, those “Killed After Action” by su***deamong the survivors, the wounded, and the families of the fallen. Survivor guilt impales the soulsof those who were spared, ghastly memories permanently etched in their brains."

November remains a minefield of anguish and horror. There have now been 15 such painful anniversaries. It was Nov. 5, 2009 when life changed in inconceivable ways.

01/12/2025

"The dawn of each new calendar brings with it an accounting of what happened in the last. For Service Members and Veterans, it is too often about the incalculable deaths of innocents that were never avenged and the defeat of an enemy left unfinished. If it wasn’t the war, it was the killing of souls in its aftermath. And too, death is so cunning when it comes about by unnatural means in those Killed After Action by their own hands."

Please turn to this article for resources for those who might be in need. There is help.

The dawn of each new calendar brings with it an accounting of what happened in the last. For Service Members and Veterans, it is too often about the incalculable deaths of innocents that were never avenged and the defeat of an enemy left unfinished. If it wasn’t the war, it was the killing of soul...

01/12/2025

The Mammalian Stress Mechanism: The Time Is Right for a New Paradigm in Biology and Medicine

“Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.”— Rudolf Virchow, MD

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In an Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Coleman asks Kennedy to do what his uncle asked of all of us in his historic 1961 speech; “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” In that one sentence, John F. Kennedy inspired Americans to participate in public service like never before.

Now, we at The American Institute of Stress are calling on the new government and civic minded scientists and physicians worldwide to begin animal and human research to confirm the ability of the newly discovered Mammalian Stress Mechanism to explain the nature of disease and provide treatments directed at its cause, thereby reforming and revolutionizing medicine. When people understand stress theory and have the ability to truly control their environmental, emotional and physical reactivity to stressors, our greatest hope is to inspire a change of hearts and minds to usher in a new era of peace on earth.

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Kathy Platoni

11/16/2024

Always on my mind.
Kathy Platoni

Fort Hood-Army Base

10/30/2024

Explore the Fall 2024 Combat Stress Magazine! From COL (RET) Kathy Platoni's Editor's Message to thought-provoking articles like ‘10 Dangers of Communism’ by Charles F. Bass, MD, and ‘Stoicism Isn’t Such a Bad Thing’ by CAPT (RET) Steve Vincent, this issue tackles the challenges and reflections of our veterans.

Dive into resilience stories like Beau Beasley’s ‘Rescued by Fly Fishing’ and gain insight into tackling burnout with Arjuna George's expert tips.

With diverse voices and crucial discussions, this issue offers veterans, service members, and readers impactful perspectives on strength, honor, and well-being.

https://www.stress.org/combat-stress-magazine/

Kathy Platoni

10/02/2024

Stress is unavoidable and comes in many shapes and sizes. It can even be considered a part of who we are.

Serving in the military or being a police officer, firefighter or paramedic brings unique challenges and some extraordinarily terrible days. They and we live with unspeakable trauma.

The American Institute of Stress is dedicated to helping you, our Heroes and their families, cope with and heal mind, body and spirit from the stress associated with your careers, your service, and your and sacrifices.

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09/18/2024

September 2024 Centerville City Beautiful Commission Summer Landscape Winners

07/30/2024

GO USA!

Did you know we have ten Soldiers competing in Paris on behalf of Team USA 🇺🇸?

These incredible athletes have put in the work as service members and Soldiers and are ready to show the world what Be All You Can Be looks like.

We've posted the names of the competitors in the comments. ⤵️

07/24/2024

The 2019 Oregon District Mass Shooting, Dayton, Ohio

It was five urgent alert calls from Dayton SWAT in the very early hours of August 4, 2019, that awakened me, out of town on active-duty military status, to abject horror. The words, “There are bodies all over the street. Nine dead. Get here now!” will reverberate in my brain for all my days to come.
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