{"id":2354,"date":"2025-04-01T11:07:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/mans-bin-bath-helps-him-overcome-ptsd\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:07:32","slug":"mans-bin-bath-helps-him-overcome-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/mans-bin-bath-helps-him-overcome-ptsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Man&#039;s bin bath helps him overcome PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-01 11:07:31<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A dad&#8217;s addiction to taking a cold plunge in his wheelie bin has helped him &#8220;overcome PTSD&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nEx-Royal Air Force engineer Martin Lynch spends up to 15 minutes each day braving the freezing 1C water in the 240-litre bin while enjoying a mug of hot tea.<BR><br \/>\nDespite many people choosing to have a warm soak in baths inside of their homes, the 44 year old said his dip has helped him overcome Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) &#8211; a mental health condition caused by traumatic experiences &#8211; after serving in Iraq and the Middle East.<BR><br \/>\nMartin, who is from Lincoln, is quoted by the Daily Star newspaper as saying: &#8220;Endorphins get set off going into cold water.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m addicted, it&#8217;s like a drug.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It sets me up for the day.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-01 11:07:31 A dad&#8217;s addiction to taking a cold plunge in his wheelie bin has helped him &#8220;overcome PTSD&#8221;. Ex-Royal Air Force engineer Martin Lynch spends up to 15 minutes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}