Let's try to give some solace

To whom? Have you looked at headlines lately, theres just so much about the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) our soldiers are suffering. The problem has always been, but it's just now receiving attention on this scale. The term PTSD makes this problem sound less serious than it actually is. Instead of calling it PTSD, we should HITB, which stands for Hell In The Brain, because that is just what it feels like when you've gone through some seriously crazy times, which stick with you afterwards, and even though the tough times are past, the memory is so vivid, that its just too hard to get your mind out of the pit. Nightmares would be an amusement park ride compared to this. If you thought those bad memories of getting teased and taunted back in high school were anything, then try living perpetually in warzone thats in your head, where unlike a live warzone, you can't really fight back, but you simply sit back overcome with morbid fear. The sesations of horror are so vivid, that some actually end their lives just to escape the memories. If you thought watching a horror movie was bad, then imagine how bad it would be to be physically surrounded by death, and then for years and years to come those memories kept interfering with your normal life.

PTSD should be taken very seriously. It's tragic that the soldiers have to suffer so much. We all keep crying for troop withdrawal (which we should be), for for some of those soldiers, even after we pull them off the battlefield, their minds would still be immersed in a war zone. What can we do and what we say, except to sympatize with those who are suffering. It also makes those of us who are out here appreciate the safety and comfort we are enjoying. While we worry that we are going to have to live in an apartment instead of a house, or complain that we can only afford Toyota instead of a Lexus, or a Ford instead of a Lincoln, there are those who are perpetually living in fear of getting shot or blown apart, and some of them are going to retain that fear in their minds for a long long time after the physical danger is past. I know I'm no Psychologist or trained therapist, but as an individual who is concerned, I have to chip my two-cents worth to try to comfort someone who is suffering. We should all sympatize with our soldiers, and although this is just a small blog, I'm hoping that a few veterans and their families might perhaps stumble upon this article, and find a little solace from a college kid who cannot say he knows what they're going through, but can at least say 'May God's love reach you and ease your suffering'

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