{"id":24469,"date":"2025-06-05T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24469"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:21:22","slug":"telemental-health-helps-veteran-rediscover-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24469","title":{"rendered":"TeleMental Health\u00a0helps Veteran rediscover joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 83-year old Air Force Veteran Alfred Izzarone, having a VA care team diagnose his PTSD was the first of many steps in taking care of his mental health. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he didn\u2019t know if he would be able to get care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, VA\u2019s TeleMental Health services allowed Izzarone to continue his treatments without interruption.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/140486\/telemental-health-helps-veteran-rediscover-joy\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/140486\/telemental-health-helps-veteran-rediscover-joy\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"418\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width:173px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png 418w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) For 83-year old Air Force Veteran Alfred Izzarone, having a VA care team diagnose his PTSD was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,33,7],"tags":[1794,87,245],"class_list":["post-24469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-healthbehavioral-health","category-telehealth","category-veterans-benefits","tag-telemental-health","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24470,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24469\/revisions\/24470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}