Living with traumas

 




Its true one can’t tell the extent of ones’ pain, struggles and suffering unless a person shares. We are living in a world filled with so much conflicts and wars that we hardly take time to check on friends, family and colleagues.

We all got issues we are dealing with. Some are so traumatizing that we barely sleep without having nightmares and flashbacks of the whole ordeal running through our minds.

Recently, while at my office, I kept wondering, what our security personnel goes through, while in the battlefield and front line as they safeguard our lives, property and territory?

Some in their career have, experienced war first hand, bearded the cost of it by both blood and sweat. To those fortunate, they get to return home, yet wounded, traumatized and been emotionally, mentally unstable, hurting and mourning the untimely departure of their colleagues.

While in combat it’s commonsense to suck it up, no matter how rough it gets, inclusive of ones’ nightmare and flashbacks.

These demons tend to weigh and exact extreme pressure, to an extent one breaks, or may force one into doing something heinous and unexpected off within the society they are living in.

War changes people and its’ about time that our agencies and government department concerned with the welfare of our security personnel and that of their families, seeks way to mitigate the high levels of PTSD exhibited by our personnel.

 The least, we can do as an institution is create and raise awareness on PTSD and pressurize the government of the day to seek ways and lasting solution to this menace.

 The government opts to facilitate and offer psychological counseling to these officers, assist them re-integrate with the community. Since this, individuals are our; brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers and even grandparents living in bondage while  trying every single day to fight the monster from within, and in the process fighting not to be the monsters themselves. Now!, that is the hardest part, after surviving the front line.

my parting advice, seeing the evil in yourself can be is scary, walk through hell enough and you come out part demon and that is what our security personnel have endured and that is the battle, they face at home every day.  

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