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  • Suicide Awareness Month reminder: Seek help for PTSD

    September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and a fitting time to draw awareness to something that impacts many service members -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). According to the American Psychiatric Association, PTSD is a disorder that can occur after a person has been exposed to actual

  • Exposing invisible wounds: a personal story about PTSD and healing

    TUCSON, Ariz. -- Technical Sgt. Joshua Brooks landed at Balad Air Base, Iraq, for the first time in January 2010. An airman 1st class at the time, Brooks was eager to be on his first deployment for the Air Force.“I was so excited about going. I was really blue early in my career--really blue,”