The difference is one month or less is ASD and longer is PTSD. I had Medical PTSD from about Easter 2015 until around Christmas of 2015 which is considered Medical PTSD from operations and medical procedures.
This last things I lived through starting almost dying in the Emergency Room on January 4th 2026 until I received my operation from a Robotic Hernia Surgeon I would diagnose as ASD. Then I also had some ASD from late March until about 6 weeks later. Do I still have ASD. Likely no. Because I learned better how to cope with Medical PTSD about 11 years ago already. You just have to keep moving forward and not let things get out of hand "You have to stay very steady and some people might not be capable of this without medications. I always choose usually no medications if possible to survive something.
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"Temporary PTSD" typically falls under Acute Stress Disorder (ASD), which lasts for
days to
month after a traumatic medical event. If symptoms resolve within this
window, it is considered ASD; if they persist for more than a month, it
meets the criteria for PTSD.
Medical
trauma and PTSD stem from events like invasive procedures, botched
surgeries, or ICU stays. While natural stress usually fades, these
psychological responses can be disabling.
Common Symptoms
Re-experiencing: Intrusive memories, flashbacks, and vivid nightmares of the medical event.
Avoidance: Steering clear of hospitals, doctors, or medical terminology.
Hyperarousal: Being easily startled, having sleep disturbances, or feeling constantly "on edge".
Negative Mood: Detachment, emotional numbness, or negative shifts in how you view your body and health.
Why Medical PTSD Happens
The
nervous system registers medical events as high-threat, even when the
care is necessary. Factors like physical pain, feeling helpless, loss of
control, and anesthesia awareness scramble memory consolidation and
trigger lasting stress.
Available Treatments
Psychotherapy is the primary treatment for both ASD and PTSD.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) & Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Helps identify and reframe negative thoughts and feelings of helplessness related to the medical event.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): A heavily utilized method that uses bilateral stimulation to reduce the emotional vividness of traumatic memories.
Medications: Certain SSRIs (such as Zoloft or Paxil) may be prescribed to help regulate the brain's fight-or-flight response, usually alongside therapy.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CBS News in an
exclusive interview that his government has evidence that Russia is
abducting Ukrainian children and training them to fight against fellow
Ukrainians.
It is an allegation that may constitute a war crime,
according to the International Criminal Court. This is the first time
that Zelenskyy has publicly made this accusation, which goes beyond the
documented evidence that Russia has a state-sponsored program of taking
Ukrainian children to camps for reeducation or "Russification."
"When these children grow up and they push these boys to the battlefield," Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy said "yes have evidence of it," but he did not detail what the evidence his government has.
"Yes,
and they taught these children to hate their native country, to hate
native people," Zelenskyy said. "And Ukrainians, can you imagine, such
young Ukrainians, young boys, come to the battlefield and kill
Ukrainians."
The International Criminal Court issued a warrant
for Vladimir Putin's arrest in 2023 due to what it referred to as a
program of "unlawful deportation of population (children)." The Kremlin
called it a humanitarian effort to care for war orphans, and has
broadcast images of Putin and the ICC-indicted program head Maria
Lvova-Belova embracing some of the kids.
In an exclusive interview with Margaret Brennan
that aired Sunday on "Face the Nation," Zelenskyy emphasized that
Russia has long been treating children essentially as combatants, and
offering to trade the children for soldiers captured on the battlefield.
International humanitarian law provides broad protections for children as non-combatants.
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"It's important to get back our warriors, war prisoners, but we can't exchange them [for] the children," he said.
"Can
you imagine, how we can exchange our children?" he said. "We can't.
First of all, it's out of the law. We can't exchange civilians."
The
previously U.S. government-backed Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale
School of Public Health, which investigates war crimes, concluded with
high confidence in a report in March
that Gazprom and Rosneft, both Russian state-owned oil and gas
companies, helped underwrite the reeducation of more than 2,000
Ukrainian children.
The report also argued that the Trump
administration's decision to issue temporary sanctions relief on Russian
oil at sea has provided a windfall for both companies.
"Gazprom and Rosneft are the first known Russian
Federation-affiliated corporate entities related to child deportation
that are currently making money from U.S. consumer spending at the time
of this publication," the Yale report said.
The U.S. first issued a
sanctions waiver in March in an attempt to put supply on the market to
offset skyrocketing prices because of the war with Iran. The waiver has
been extended twice and, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent,
the extension came at the request of countries in Asia hungry for oil
supplies.
Brennan asked Zelenskyy whether the temporarily lifting
of U.S. sanctions off some Russian oil sales is inadvertently fueling
that abduction program.
"Lifting sanctions is a help for the soldiers of Russia," he said.
He
said his government has spoken with lawmakers about imposing stricter
sanctions on Russia in retaliation for the alleged child abduction
scheme.
"I hope that Congress will find the possibility again to
put sanctions on Russians, because of the children," he said. "We spoke
with congressmen, we spoke so many times about it. I hope that they will
make this step."
Zelenskyy also told CBS that Ukraine has
documented the abduction of at least 20,000 Ukrainian children, and
wants help tracking down what he suspects are even higher numbers.
"---the administration is no longer committed to “the
conservative agenda that has defined the Republican Party since the days
of Ronald Reagan, and before that an agenda of American leadership,
limited government, free market economics, the right to life.”
end partial quote from previous article.
Yes. I agree Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater are rolling over in their graves right now over the 850 million richer Trump and his family have made since he came into office bilking the American People out of their money as well as a Democratic and Conservative Government. Only Corruption remains in Trump's government and that's all. Nothing useful to the short or long term survival of the American People.
Former
Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that President Donald Trump’s
second administration has “departed” from traditional conservative
principles.
Pence, who served
as Trump’s vice president from 2017 to 2021, told NBC News’ “Meet the
Press” that the administration is no longer committed to “the
conservative agenda that has defined the Republican Party since the days
of Ronald Reagan, and before that an agenda of American leadership,
limited government, free market economics, the right to life.”
He added that “on a number of those issues, the president’s been good” in the past.
“I
don’t think there’s any question about the president’s popularity,”
Pence continued, adding: “I give him all the credit in the world for the
hold that he has on Republican voters.”
The
former vice president said he still believes GOP voters align with the
party’s core conservative principles, telling “Meet the Press” moderator
Kristen Welker that “if Republicans this fall and in 2028 hold up those
time-honored conservative principles, those voters will rally to our
cause.”
Pence said he
understands that GOP primary voters want to support Trump-aligned
candidates in primaries, “but I believe that the overwhelming majority
of people in the MAGA movement believe that America is the leader of the
free world, believe in limited government, less taxes, less
regulations, would reject ideas like nationalization of businesses and
price controls and broad-based tariffs, and at the core of our movement
is a commitment to the sanctity of life.”
The
former vice president criticized the Trump administration for not doing
enough to restrict abortion pills, saying, “This administration, we see
a desire to relegate the right to life to a state-only issue, to
actually have a pro-abortion secretary of HHS who has done nothing to
limit the availability of the abortion pill.”
Pence
also warned that the values of Trump’s second administration could
affect how Republicans fare in the midterm elections this fall,
asserting that if they win, it will be because Democrats are too
radical.
“I
think in many respects Republicans have lost our way, but Democrats
have lost their mind, and I think the reason why we’re going to hold the
Senate, and we have a real shot to hold the House, is because of the
extremism on the Democratic side,” he said, pointing specifically to the
Texas Senate race.
Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton beat Sen. John Cornyn in the race for the GOP Senate nomination, setting up a general election matchup against Democratic nominee James Talarico.
Pence was particularly critical of the Justice Department’s “anti-weaponization fund,”
which includes nearly $1.8 billion that could be paid out to people who
believe they’ve been unfairly targeted by the federal government. (A
federal judge last week temporarily blocked the fund.)
“I
think that the weaponization fund is a bad idea from the start, and I
would encourage the administration just to drop it,” the former vice
president said.
He called the
notion that Jan. 6 rioters who were charged and sentenced for their
actions at the Capitol in 2021 could receive payouts from the Justice
Department “deeply offensive.” Upon taking office for his second term,
Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 people who were charged for their actions that day.
Pence,
who was at the Capitol to certify the 2020 elections results when the
Jan. 6 riot broke out and had to be evacuated from the complex, added
that he believes his negative view of the fund is shared by most
Republicans and most Americans.
“I
mean, it’s deeply offensive to me that you could have a fund that could
even possibly compensate people who assaulted police officers or
vandalized the Capitol on Jan. 6, and I think that’s broadly held by
most Republicans and most Americans,” he said.
I'm not sure what is happening in other states. However, unless you put in your solar a few years ago here in California you no longer get full price for your solar electricity you sell back. We for example, only get 10 cents on the dollar now when we turned on our solar during the last few years. So, if you put solar in read the fine print. However, most of the time our meter is going backwards so we aren't paying anything most of the time anyway. So, your bill (whether they pay you for electricity or not is going down by about 85% in Santa Barbara at least where there is a lot of sun. There needs to be enough sun during the year to make putting solar into your home or business worthwhile otherwise it isn't worth the investment long term.
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Latvian mountaineering group says three climbers on Alaska’s Mount
McKinley who fell near a treacherous pass on North America’s tallest
peak have died.
It's possible now that Netanyahu will do to much of Lebanon what they have already done to Gaza and like Gaza never leave or rebuild there until all locals are gone or dead. It is also possible that Israel will simply start Israeli colonization of the destroyed areas of Lebanon as well.
Collapse during illegal mining operation in China kills at least 5 people
A collapse during an illegal mining operation in China has killed five people and injured one other person
ByThe Associated Press
May 31, 2026, 2:08 AM
BEIJING -- A collapse occurred in an illegal mining operation in China on Sunday, killing five people and injuring one other person, Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported.
The
incident took place in Huize County in Yunnan province in southwest
China at about 4:30 a.m., Xinhua reported. The news outlet did not
specify what kind of mine it was.
Rescuers
pulled out all six people trapped at the site in Baiwu village and sent
them to the hospital, but five of them succumbed to their injuries. The
survivor was in stable condition, the report said.
Authorities were investigating the cause of the collapse.
Just more than a week ago, the country was hit by its deadliest coal mine explosion
in recent years, which killed at least 82 people in China’s northern
Shanxi province. Local officials earlier said there were “serious
violations” of the law by that mine’s operator.
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