As someone with the condition I'm finding it more and more frustrating at the lack of resources for people who have suffered major trauma, have PTSD, but haven't been in the military.
I'm a patriot, I have an unexpressable amount of admeration and gratitude for those who serve. They put their lives on the line, on hold, and into the hands of people who rarely have their best interests at heart all so that we can have the blessed life we get to have here in the good 'ol USofA. So, please, don't read this as a condemnation of the people out there with the balls to put on a uniform and learn how to stand at attention and clean a riffle. It's not that at all, it's just that they aren't the only people who get PTSD.
Maybe it's a media thing. Certianly the recent disgraceful treatment of our military personal who were denied the correct diagnosis for fiscal reasons deserves the media attention it got (probably more so). It's a God send, in it's own backwards way, that those in uniform brought this life altering condition into the light. For that I'm grateful, and sad...how many of you were misdiagnosed or told there was nothing wrong with you...how many of you died due to the neglect of a 'we know better than you about you' phycological establishment?
I'm being treated, so far as taking meds and seeing a wonderful councelor constitutes treatment. But I don't know where else to turn for help. I know I need more help because I'm drowning. How long can you live in a combonation state of cognative disanence and abject terror before it's just too much? And when you hit that point...the too much point...what then? Does your mind finish breaking, does scuicide become the only answer, do you spend the rest of your days wearing velcro pajamas and only being allowed to use crayons with supervision?
Worse, what happens to our families? The husbands, wives, children, and parents robbed of the person they love.
One phonecall later and I just can't type this stuff anymore. Thank God for iWin and the wonderfully distracting stuff they always have to hand.
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