Iraq war veterans and PTSD (EFT as a solution)
I was reading a story about Iraq veterans suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Syndrome Disorder), according to stats 1 in 8 returning soldiers suffers from PTSD less than half seek help.
Below is the story of Michael Goss:
I have PTSD. I know when I got it — the night I killed an 8-year-old girl. Her family was trying to cross a checkpoint. We’d just shot three guys who’d tried to run a checkpoint. And during that mess, they were just trying to get through to get away from it all. And we ended up shooting all them, too. It was a family of six. The only one that survived was a 13-month-old and her mother. And the worst part about it all was that where I shot my bullets, when I went to see what I’d shot at, there was an 8-year-old girl there. I tried my best to bring her back to life, but there was no use. But that’s what triggered my depression.
When I got out of the Army, I had 10 days to get off base. There was no reintegration counseling. As soon as I got back, nobody gave a fuck about anything except that piece of paper that said I got everything out of my room. I got out of the Army, and everything went to shit from there.
My wife ended up finding another guy. I’m getting divorced, and I’m fighting for custody. She wants child support, the house, the car, the boys.
I get three nights off a week. And I drink and take pills to help me sleep at night. I do what I can to help myself. I talk to friends. Soldiers who were there. Once in a while one of my old soldiers will call me, drunk off his ass, crying about the stuff he saw in Iraq. And all I can do is tell him, “You and me both are going to have to find a way to work this out.” That’s the only thing I can tell him.
I do martial arts, that’s what I do. I go in a cage and I fight. It helps take my mind off of things. I get hurt, but I can’t feel it. I don’t feel it until after it’s all over with.
So let’s put this in perspective now. I got two Iraq tours, multiple kills, I picked up plenty of dead bodies, American bodies, enemy bodies. I killed an 8-year-old girl, which still haunts me to this day. I come back home. My wife finds somebody else. I’m sleeping on my brother’s couch while she has the apartment, the kids, the car, everything that we worked on together. I work as a bail bondsman making $432 a week, which all goes to my brother. I have to fight just to see my boys because she’s at the point where she thinks I don’t deserve to see my kids because I haven’t had help for my PTSD. She’s scared I might do something stupid. And the VA won’t help me out because of my other-than-honorable discharge. What else do you want to know?
Now, I understand that less than half seek help, according to the same article the counselling given by the military consist of the following advice : “Don’t drink and drive. Pay your bills on time. Don’t beat your spouse. Don’t kick your dog.”
With such advices I’m not surprised I had rather not seek help at least not from them. PTSD is something the EFT 
professional know well, in fact, I think the U.S army can do fine if they hire some EFT professionals to work on their soldiers suffering from PTSD but now, I m not sure if this is in their interest to empower and heal people for a system to work , people must fear their authority, as soon as you can heal yourself with a system like EFT, you will no longer rely on the medical system that a lost of power for them.
A large numbers of articles about EFT and PTSD are available on the Emofree website. I remember of Rich a Vietnam war veteran ffeatured in the DVD course, he had hundred of traumatic memories, he did a couple of sessions with Gary Craig and he was quiclly able to sleep again, over the time he was able to cure his PTSD.
So if you know someone suffering from PTSD or if you are suffering from it yourself, have a look at EFT, it is way better than feeding the pharma industry by buying useless drugs.
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