{"id":11500,"date":"2010-12-10T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T11:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=11500"},"modified":"2012-01-25T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:22:05","slug":"%e2%80%9ci-am-not-the-only-one-who-has-had-suicidal-thoughts%e2%80%93triggered-by-this-turbine%e2%80%9d-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2010\/%e2%80%9ci-am-not-the-only-one-who-has-had-suicidal-thoughts%e2%80%93triggered-by-this-turbine%e2%80%9d-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI am not the only one who has had suicidal thoughts triggered by this turbine\u201d (Massachusetts)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Editor’s note<\/em>: \u00a0The following is probably the most painful article we’ve ever posted. \u00a0Written by an ex-GI. \u00a0The man has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. \u00a0Nineteen months combat, Vietnam. \u00a0Sergeant, US Marines. <\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Pierpont has come across research strongly suggesting that people with PTSD are suffering not from “battle trauma” or “battle stress”\u00a0per se<\/em>, but “noise trauma” to vestibular organs or to brain centers under vestibular influence—noise trauma associated with battle. \u00a0PTSD is a form of brain trauma. \u00a0The US government has known this for years. \u00a0Indeed, much of the research was done by US military scientists. <\/span><\/p>\n If she can ever squeeze enough “spare time” out of her medical practice, Pierpont will publish her research into this. \u00a0Meanwhile, we are finding that a good many people reporting WTS symptoms are, unsurprisingly, combat veterans diagnosed with PTSD. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n 11\/17\/10<\/p>\n To the Falmouth Board of Selectmen:<\/p>\n I am someone who has been on both sides of the mental health fence. I lived 35 years with\u00a0undiagnosed, chronic PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from 19 months combat in Vietnam), followed by seven years of intensive, twice\/week therapy.<\/p>\n By 2008 I was doing very well, to where I felt I possessed a new life, with grandkids, a secure retirement, a great place to live, my garden. I volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, and my wife and I were in travel mode.<\/p>\n Then along came Falmouth’s Wind Turbine # 1. Within one month I was in a deep depression.<\/p>\n I started drinking again. My primary doctor at the Veterans Administration, Dr. Carol Ryan, told me that I “must move away from the wind turbine; that, with my PTSD, I cannot stand the added stress.”<\/p>\n My main counselor wrote a letter for me. It is enclosed<\/a>.<\/p>\n