{"id":2475,"date":"2010-08-11T12:14:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2010-08-11T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:58:55","slug":"inside-a-pstd-support-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/08\/11\/inside-a-pstd-support-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside a PTSD support group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Freilich of North Country This Week <a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrynow.com\/news\/veterans-county-struggling-get-help-they-need-jobs-and-health-06737\">has a great article<\/a> from inside a veterans&#8217; support group meeting in Canton:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Iraq veteran said, \u201cMy father is a Vietnam vet, and he was always  jumpy around fireworks. Now I realize what was going on. I have a young  son and I have a big problem. He had one of those snappers, and he set  it off, and I wanted to kill him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got sober in 1984, then got drunk 18 years later. I was out of control,\u201d said another. \u201cIt\u2019s still a struggle, every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another, recalling nights in Vietnam, said \u201cThey expect you to come  home and be able to sleep at night. I used to get to sleep, with a quart  of whiskey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the brutality of war, one man said \u201cI can\u2019t eat barbecued chicken anymore.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vietnam veteran and PTSD specialist Nellie Coakley is the counselor at these meetings.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/10446\/ptsd-pt-4-a-war-trauma-counselor\">Listen to this interview with her from 2007.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mental health issues from Iraq and Afghanistan veterans will linger with us for decades.\u00a0 Finding ways to help these veterans &#8211; including making the system work for them &#8211; remains a huge challenge for America.<\/p>\n<p>Frank articles like this one keep an often invisible problem in the public mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Freilich of North Country This Week has a great article from inside a veterans&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}