I checked myself into the broken VA System during a mental & spiritual crisis… PTSD into PTG

In 2016, I had a mental & spiritual crisis. I checked myself into the VA.

I went in there wondering what was wrong with me and I left with a list and a bag full of medication.

My PTSD journey turned into a PTG journey at Boulder Crest's PATHH Program.

Post Traumatic Growth is the idea we can be better men, or women, than we were before we experienced trauma.

Veterans are not damaged goods. In fact, they are some of the best of us.

We need to fix the broken VA system, take better care of those who take care of us, and stop being so frivolous with military lives.

We need to stop losing veterans to their own hand. We are better than we were before. We have age, we have wisdom, we have perspective.

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