PTSD

(PTSD) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is something that we often associate with soldiers coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan.  However, this disorder can affect anybody. For example, what if your battlefield is not thousands of miles across the globe and your enemy is not an opposing army.  What if your battlefield is the streets, and your enemy is hunger, and lack of shelter?  Then what, say for a moment you've arrived at a point in your life that you are now homeless, and hungry.  I can tell you from first hand experience that the streets are very similar to a war zone.  I was out there once; alone, scared, hungry, and broke.  Like a war zone, death and destruction are always close by on the streets.  Like a war zone you often sleep very little, and are on guard most of the time.  Like a war zone the enemy takes on many forms.  Hunger, fear, anger, sadness all of these things become your enemy.  When I was out there alone in the dark searching I can remember that there was one thing I wanted more then anything.  That one thing I wanted so desperately was a friend.