News Watch App Developer Won’t Sleep Until Vets With Ptsd Can

[anthony]

The app still under development is called myBivy, bivy a nod to bivouac, the military term for an overnight encampment. MyBivy monitors his father’s movements and heart rate and knows exactly when a nightmare is about to set in. It then activates the watch to gently vibrate. The vibration does not wake him but it is enough to disrupt an incoming night terror as he enters deep sleep.

“MyBivy is like a service dog,” Tyler Skluzacek, a senior at Macalester College in St. Paul, told Cult of Mac. “Veterans with really bad PTSD go to bed with a service dog and if that person starts to get shaky, the dog will put a paw on the person exactly at the point they need it.”

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[lostforgottensoul]

"He said when counseling didn’t seem to help, he was given “a shopping cart full” of psychiatric drugs and when those didn’t help, he self-medicated with alcohol."

All too common of a story, im sure everywhere, but the retuning vets here arent getting the help needed. I watched many documentries on it, being the daughter of a vet, and it just breaks my heart. Forget about me, they put their lives at risk for us, the least we can do is help them when they come home.

This app is SOOO awesome, wish i had thought of it! The one medication people say helps nightmares is a blood pressure med & i cant lower it any more. Totally gonna be the first to buy this!

 

[Gadgie]

Geez! that's amazing, so there hope out there for us all then, it would be great if I could stop having my nightmares!