... so I can't have PTSD, right?" This is something we hear all the time. The truth is, trauma hits everyone of us. It doesn't discriminate based on job description, gender, race or religion. And if you are able to experience trauma, you are able to fall into the battle with PTSD. Statistics tell us that everyday 123 people will commit suicide. Of those 123, only 22 will be service members or veterans. That means that less than 1/5th of those who take their lives today will be veterans. Some will be current or former first responders. Some will be doctors or lawyers. Some will be locksmiths, plumbers, office managers or housewives. Some will be our children. Many of these will act as a result of PTSD they never knew they had.
and so never got the treatment they so desperately needed.

The cold hard truth is that each of us will experience some sort of trauma many times throughout our lives. Life happens. Disasters strike. Jobs are lost. Marriages end. Life comes to a conclusion for ones we hold very dear and just like that trauma enters our lives. We sometimes don't even recognize it at first because of how deceptive it can be. We have had the privileged to minister to someone who lost a best friend due to an unfortunate drug interaction during surgery. Two months later when they needed surgery for a broken ankle, they found themselves in the middle of full blown PTSD. What is trauma for one person will not be trauma for another, but the bottom line is we each will experience some sort of trauma and if we don't deal with it when we experience it, it will turn into PTSD.