Raw & Beautiful Reminders
Almost three years ago the TV show Army Wives started my healing process of life effected by PTSD. While the characters are fictional, it is such a sense of relief to be able to relate to lives being effected by PTSD on the show. It plays tricks on your mind when there is no real person who can truly understand what you're dealing with when your husband develops PTSD. It's not just a disease that surfaces one day, is treated and then normal life presumes. You have to learn to live with PTSD and the new person it's created. PTSD is not the person, just as a cancer patient is not cancer. When cancer enters your life it changes the rest of your life, as does PTSD. You have to grieve the person before PTSD. You learn to cope with flashbacks, panic attacks, depression, lack of support from people you expected devotion from, battles and stabs in the back from the system that was once for your hero. I watched a recent episode of Army Wives and it brought tears to my eyes,