PTSD You Can't See

I am disabled though you can’t see my wounds.

I am a Veteran though you can’t see my helmet or uniform.

I have been hurt, though you can’t see the scars.

I may ‘look’ normal, though you don’t see my sleepless nights.

I have PTSD, though you don’t see my PTSD.

PTSD has no look to it.

No special warning label.

Many who have it don’t know they have it.

We appear healthy because you cannot see where we are hurt.

PTSD is real even though you cannot see my disability.

PTSD has kept me up many sleepless nights, made me want to fight all injustices because what happened to me wasn’t right.

You can’t visibly see PTSD, but that doesn’t make it any less real.

PTSDN ripple effects you and it affects me.

Some disabilities are permanent, others you can take steps to overcome and lesson the symptoms.

The good news is PTSD is treatable.

You can take active steps to lessen the pain.

You can overcome trauma and live a better life.

Don’t hold your trauma inside.

Don’t keep putting band aids on internal wounds.

Don’t act like everything is ok when it isn’t

No one can see the internal battle you fight.

PTSD can be a disability where you ‘look’ “ok” on the outside.

Being truly strong means asking and seeking for help.

True strength and courage is having feelings and admitting that it’s ok to not be ok.

Trauma isn’t healthy to endure so why would you go through it unscarred?

It’s ok to seek help to heal.

Healing means dealing with the pain before you go insane trying to hide it.

Eventually PTSD could get bigger and bigger from that old wound, so face the pain and talk about it, find your own healing solutions as PTSD when handled with care and courage doesn’t have to limit and keep hurting your future the way the trauma hurt your past.

I am disabled although you cannot see my disability.

I worked day and night on my healing until I felt alright.

I worked on my healing until I could sleep though the night.

I may have PTSD, an invisible wound, yet it doesn’t affect me like it did.

It doesn’t control my mind anymore.

Trauma took enough from me.

I couldn’t let it take my future.

PTSD healing for you, PTSD healing for me.

PTSD healing from trauma for everybody.

Thank God PTSD is a disability we all can do something about.