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“When we are no longer able to change a situation — we are challenged to change ourselves.” - Viktor E. Frankl
Courtenay: The following chapter is about Chance and Repo. Much like me, their owner had a difficult childhood and took on some heavy responsibilities at a young age. She honored her family's history of military service by joining the Army in 2010. I honored my Grandfather's WWII Navy service and my husband's Navy service when I served in the Reserve and Active Navy. When talking to her about her PTSD issues and her life after serving, I kept finding more things we could relate to.
One particular morning I got up and, once I checked Facebook, I saw a post about a Veteran whose friend was trying to find him after finding out his friend was threatening to kill himself... and that the friend was at the train station.
As soon as I heard about that my anxiety shot up, and until I found a post near the end that confirmed that he was found and was at the VA, I remained upset about the situation. The reason I got so upset about it was because the Veteran who was trying to find his friend was someone I knew and had served with.
Ever since I was in Afghanistan, whenever my PTSD rears its ugly head, which is pretty much daily, I have to deal with a lot of negative thoughts. Thoughts my brain has 'brought up' as logical 'acts'...things that normally would not make sense to do or to think. I have realized that one reason I haven’t had major anxiety attacks recently is that I have been maintaining a higher overall stress level. My body is a big ball of rubber bands...stretched to the limit with little
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