Between 11% and 20% of veterans who served in Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom experience PTSD in a given year, according to the VA. Two veterans speak to hereandnow about their experiences living with PTSD.
Army veteran Isiah James ‘loved’ being in the military. He says he enjoyed the kinship and camaraderie that the U.S. armed forces offered him.“One day I was in the service and the next day — literally the next day — I was just a civilian out of my own,” he says.
“This little voice inside my head just said, ‘You can't give up.’ So that's when I started seeking help and it literally has saved my life.” “I didn't really deal with [PTSD] while I was in [the Army] because you're surrounded by... like everybody is going through the same things. So you don't really want to manifest your problems on anybody else. But it's when you get outside the military, and the civilian world is a lot different, and you're on your own and you don't really have that support network there.”: “I joined in 2008. I had one deployment to Afghanistan. I spent 10 months in Kandahar.
"I realized that I'm not alone in this fight, that people are dealing with this who, for all intents and purposes, look ‘normal’ but are dealing with these issues on the inside. And I was so relieved that I didn't have this albatross around my neck anymore weighing me down because as Fidel was saying, like not sleeping and the sleep paralysis, I know exactly what he's talking about because I still don't sleep to this day.
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