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related issues is available. I just wish there was less stigma attached to it and more understanding by the general public. I don't see as much stigma anymore, but I still see it. It's still out there. I am very careful about who I share things with, outside of the medical community. Because a lot of their responses are "just get over it"... things like that. They really just don't understand.
What I have found is that, when I stop therapy, I slowly start isolating again...becoming more introverted. Through therapy it's almost like, even going every two weeks, it's almost like accountability. It is like making sure I use the skills I have learned so that I can live somewhat of a normal life.
I injured my back and knees in Basic Training and again in Advanced Individual Training (AIT). We were doing a road march on one of them and that's when I injured my back and I injured my knee running. I did it multiple times in the Army, I kept injuring my knee. I have a lot of trouble with it now. I have arthritis in my knee. It gives out on me sometimes. I also have tendinitis...I messed up all of my tendons. They are really never going to be back the way they used to be. I injured all of the muscles in my lower back, so there's only a certain extent to which I could strengthen them before I re-injure them. I have a slight bulge on my discs and I have arthritis and bone spurs up my back because my muscles, especially in my lower back, can't hold my spine in place too well.
From then on I continually had issues with injuries of those two areas which, in time, caused my sciatica problems. The back and knee injuries messed up my sciatic nerve, and the pain is constant and sometimes unbearable. The tendons in my knee are damaged and between my back and my knee I have to use a cane most days to get around outside of my home. On really bad weeks I need my walker. I have Bursitis in one shoulder, from an injury I sustained in 1995 at an
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