MENTAL HEALTH
Daniel Gaita
Exercise Assisted Psychotherapy: For the ...

Operation Vet Fit, is successfully implementing exercise prescription in combination with psychotherapy in the fight to stop veteran suicide.

Exercise Assisted Psychotherapy: For the Treatment of PTSD, Anxiety, Depression and Pain.
Daniel Gaita
COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reminder to Exercise ...

This pandemic is not an opportunity to separate the strong from the weak or the sick, lame and lazy from the overachievers. But it is an opportunity to look at how our lifestyle decisions impact not only our personal health, but the global economy and the entire human population as well. This is a collective human calling. A moment of nearly entire planetary awareness. An epiphany whereby we realize how our daily personal decisions impact the survival of the self and the entire human species. We were warned. Some of us have headed the warnings, others have chosen not to, and some are unfortunate victims of complex circumstances and unfortunate genetic predispositions. 

COVID-19 Pandemic: A Reminder to Exercise and Eat Healthy – We Were Warned
Daniel Gaita
124 US Suicides A Day - How We Got Here, How To ...

27.7 veteran suicides per day and an overall national rate of 124.4 a day, according to the recently published 2019 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report from the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.

124 US Suicides A Day - How We Got Here, How To Fix It
Daniel Gaita
Competitive Underwater Physical Exercise

I was invited to try it out. I did. Now I am hooked.

Competitive Underwater Physical Exercise

MENTAL HEALTH

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Operation Vet Fit and the Citadel Military College Team Up To Investigate Impact of Exercise on Anxiety, Depression and Pain

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Results from this pilot study show that CBEE may be a promising means for acutely reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression among combat veterans. Follow up studies with larger sample sizes are needed to further investigate the relationship between CBEE and acute and chronic symptoms of anxiety and depression, and subsequently, veteran suicide.

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Research Study: Veterans and Marijuana

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Research Study: Veterans and Marijuana

On April 20th, 2018 Operation Vet Fit conducted a first-of-its-kind marijuana research study to investigate if marijuana demonstrates measurable medicinal values in outcomes on depression, anxiety and pain amongst US Military veterans.