VIEWPOINT | Offering hope and healing to veterans with PTSD
Guest column by Grant Dorothy, the CEO of PTSD Insights
A sizable segment of the veteran and active-duty population is suffering from the lingering impact of exposure to past traumatic stress events.
Many still lead lives plagued by serious war-related readjustment problems – depression, anxiety, flashbacks to combat, isolation, feelings of alienation, avoidance of feelings, resentment, anger, survivor’s guilt, shame, nightmares, sleep disturbances, drug or alcohol problems and suicidal feelings.
In the forward of his book “War and Soul,” Edward Tick presents the magnitude of the problem: “War stamps the soul with an indelible imprint ... and the soul that once went to war ... is forever transformed. The soul at war is distorted along all its essential functions – how it relates to the cosmos spiritually, how it identifies with moral and spiritual principles, how it evaluates its experiences, what its relationship is to its own instincts and to the ultimate principles of life and death.
