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In talking with people that have experienced it, I learned that PTSD is something that a person in a position of authority sometimes thinks they're not supposed to have. They don't always have an avenue to personally address it or even discuss it.

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.

PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.

Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.

Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those that served this country.

I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.