Transcript
PTSD stands for posttraumatic "stress" disorder,
and that stress and anxiety can bleed over into other parts
of your life if you're not knowing how to cope with it.
And it can affect your relationships, it can put a big wedge
between you and those you care most about.
I know that my way of coping, initially, was to actually
distance myself from those I cared most about because
down the range I lost friends that were close to me,
and I felt like that was my way
of guarding myself from any more pain.
But what I didn't realize was that by distancing myself from
those who cared most about me, I was distancing myself
from the only help or hope that I had.
And I think once that I started to realize that,
that cohesion between myself and my husband
and my family and my friends really brought me back
to Earth, and to reality, and to this moment, and this time
and gave me hope for the future.