Helping People & Vets Recover from Stress & Mental Health Using Virtual Reality Therapy
Living with PTSD? This will help.
"Our Why" Every day, on average, 17 U.S. military veterans commit suicide.
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Exposure therapy, which involves using the imagination to recall the troubling event and talking through it with a therapist, is a proven form of PTSD therapy. But veterans, especially those with depression in addition to PTSD, often have a hard time willingly summoning those memories. Virtual reality therapy changes the equation and offers an innovative alternative to traditional PTSD treatment methods.
The BraveMind program includes 14 different ‘worlds’ from a crowded Iraqi marketplace to a remote Afghan village or a checkpoint in the desert to a forward operating base in the mountains. The therapist can recreate the scene of the traumatic incident in the VR headset, putting the veteran back in the moment. This type of therapy for veterans can be challenging, but confronting symptoms of PTSD can bring incredible healing.
Reliving your worst nightmare isn’t easy, Dr. Rizzo calls virtual reality exposure therapy “hard medicine for a hard problem.” However, doing it in a safe, supportive environment can help veterans open up about the incident and process their emotions around it. This process can help veterans begin to heal and put their PTSD symptoms behind them.
“It gets them to talk about things they’ve never talked to anyone about before,” said Dr. Rizzo. In the end, he said, “those memories don’t have the same intense, painful emotional power that they did before. Patients start to feel empowered, to feel that they got it out, and that they can talk about it.”
Thanks in part to the popularity of virtual gaming, 
virtual reality therapy appeals to vets who might shy away from traditional talk therapy. This allows veteran service organizations to deliver more engaging and personalized therapy.
A key to BraveMind’s efficacy is the therapist’s ability to customize the world that the patient will experience in the headset. Customizations closely match the setting of the bad memory, down to the sounds, smells, and time of day. From the control panel, the therapist can put the patient in the driver’s seat of a vehicle to match the veteran’s traumatic experiences. He or she can generate explosions or make helicopters fly overhead as the patient narrates the story in the present tense.
“You’re completely immersed in the moment,” said former Marine Chris Merkle, who tried the VR therapy after serving three years in Iraq and close to four years in Afghanistan. “You can feel it in your body when you talk, you just feel so tense. You don’t get that normally unless you’re in a really, really deep therapy session…[The VR] hands you your experience.”
Confronting the memory head-on, over and over again, reduces the brain’s response to it, so that ultimately, the veteran controls the memory and not the other way around. VR therapy allows veterans to regain control of their memories and in turn, how these memories impact their lives.
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Christopher R. Merkle M.A. is an advocate for veterans working to garner community support for veterans and to reduce the stigma of mental health. As a Marine combat veteran, Christopher openly challenges the stigma of mental health by sharing his battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). His story is an extraordinary example of VR technology like BraveMind having a life-changing impact on the lives of those living with PTSD.
While he is proud of his service to the nation and local law enforcement, he does not believe service members should be defined by their past. “You fought for everyone’s Freedom to include our own, now fight to regain or maintain your own happiness and the American way of life.”
Watch Chris describe life with PTSD and how VR therapy has been a saving grace for not only himself, but also for his home life.
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The patient follows the therapy in the VR world, while feedback from sensors is reflected in the dashboard.
The software automatically adjusts the level of difficulty of the training. As a therapist, you can turn the knobs and make exercises more challenging or more accessible. The system also automatically keeps track of the patient’s progress.
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All modules are available on your smartphone or VR glasses
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You can also use Corpus VR at home or at work. Download the app on your smartphone and get all the modules.
Do you train independently? Then the software will automatically determine your level and adjust exercises.
If you work together with a therapist, they will receive all the progress and feedback in the dashboard. This way the therapist can see what’s going on, adjust exercises or prepare new ones for you.