American Soldier: challenge in life is battling with PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury, severe anxiety, and depression
Read This Inspiring Story I found online American Soldier :My number 1 challenge in life is battling with PTSD, Tramatic Brain Injury, severe anxiety, and depression from mental and physical wounds. It’s definitely not easy to admit it, and as a man, it’s not something I thought I would suffer from ever. And this has led me to not attending or trying everything possible to not attend social events. It’s something that I’ve battled since 2010, from an extremely active deployment of about 30 of us on a basketball size court size outpost in a valley in the Pech River, Kunar Province, no running water, little electricity and protected by sandbags where we got in active firefights all but several days that year, losing more buddies than I can count on my hands. But combat became who I was, and the times when I felt most significant in my life. I couldn’t and can’t stop that crave I get from the chaos, struggle and hurt…But I dealt with my problems with ALCOHOL, drugs and going on other depl...