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deal with PTSD and its related issues all along including heightened anxiety and panic attacks, flashbacks, nightmares, insomnia, short-fused anger, and many other issues. Some turn to drugs and alcohol in the process.
Many Veterans I interviewed tell me that despite their issues with PTSD, they would not hesitate to return to service, or even to a war zone, to serve all over again. It is a place where those who have served are comfortable; where we worked alongside our brothers and sisters in service; where we all knew that others ‘had our six’. It was a place we all felt we could trust one another despite often extreme circumstances.
“For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.” - Naomi Judd
Even though the Total War on PTSD is focused on Veterans, its concepts can be applied to anyone experiencing issues relating to PTSD from any sort of trauma at all, not just combat or military related experiences. It can be related to sexual trauma of any sort, rape, sexual abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse, traumatic experiences; really pretty much any event that had enough of an impact on your life that it alone, or even an accumulation of events that caused your PTSD to surface and effect your life...causing you to seek help in any way possible.
Just because someone might be scared doesn’t mean they can’t overcome fear.
No matter the circumstances of when you served or where, please know that there are still people out there who ‘have your six’ and I would be so proud to be able to call myself one of them. You deserve to live.
Your life was lived in flight and shadow...
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