it's unfortunate that this side of police work doesn't get more public awareness
I teared up as well. I was in that exact situation, but on the veterans end of it. I was on my way home from a very intense PTSD group. I had to drive an hour and 10 mins to and from for the group. It was my first group therapy after spending 60 days inpatient in a PTSD program at a VA facility. The intrusive thoughts were vivid and horrible... and I couldn't shake it. I pulled over and completely broke down. I had pulled over in a housing development. An officer pulled over because a homeowner had called the police for a suspicious vehicle parked and occupied. Before he walked up to the window he had asked if I was a veteran, because of my "Proud Graduate of Marine Corps Combat University" sticker on my back window. I said "yes" and he asked if I had any weapons in the vehicle. I honestly give and later gave, that man credit for helping in my long road to recovery and learning how to live/cope with it. Just him being there, at the right time that night, was a God send. He was a Marine Combat Veteran himself and knew exactly what to say and how to help. He got me right back to the VA, himself, within an hr.
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I’ll take the lumps in this thread.
Not gonna fire back.
This was righteous.
I think I heard the following statistic from the Shawn Ryan Show. Since the Afghanistan withdrawal, calls to the VA hotline have gone up 81% from the previous year.
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Not just vets manI think I heard the following statistic from the Shawn Ryan Show. Since the Afghanistan withdrawal, calls to the VA hotline have gone up 81% from the previous year.
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