I would be the first to tell you that PTSD is real. It is haunting and it can control your life
if you let it. For me it has seized hold
many times when I least expected it. It
has caused me to do crazy unpredictable things, mostly things that I regret. But I have learned that I can have a normal
loving life, even if it rears its ugly head every now and again.
I don’t know a soldier who wouldn’t do it all again. Every one of us believes in what we have done
to support our country. But we all
wonder at the cost of this freedom that we fought or fight to preserve. We come
home broken, with war related illness, injuries, and unexplained feelings of
loss and regret. At first we deal with
the obvious issues, broken bones, missing limbs, and the strange vomiting
episodes that seem to control your every day, or something like this. The
doctors know how to deal with these, at least some of them. Then we move on and think that we are okay,
but in reality nothing will ever be the same; but let’s look at same. Do we really want everything to be the
same? We just risked our lives for those
that we love; we had to change everything we believed in to become a fighting
machine, as they say. So the question
is; how do we go back and live with our loved ones and not let what has changed
us destroy them?
This is a journey.... My journey
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