Shadow Training Services

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is in the public eye due to veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan over the last decade.

In Britain, PTSD it is a major cause in veterans of homelessness, domestic abuse, depression and suicide.

In the United States, it has been found that you can relieve veterans' PTSD symptoms through the Airsoft game.

Veterans can gain relief from their symptoms by throwing themselves back into the situation that caused the stress in the first place.

Veterans don't want to sit in group therapy, but they do understand combat, and through ‘exposure’ therapy, in a safe environment they feel comfortable in, the more that you can desensitise and lessen those threats that cause these veterans to experience their PTSD, the quicker those veterans will be on the road to recovery.

Realistic gear and scenarios, minus the realistic danger, helps veterans work through the traumas experienced.

Airsoft can helps veterans cope with nightmares, hyper vigilance, trust issues and anger management.

This unconventional method of controlling PTSD can help veterans who have given so much in the service of their country.

STS is run by veterans who have experienced PTSD first hand, so PTSD courses are run at cost to STS, with profits donated to homeless veteran charities.