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  Love Letters from the Edge: Hope for the Hopeless

  Posted on March 26, 2014 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  Four years ago, forty-eight year-old Wanda Sanchez was clinging to a life without hope. Every day was a struggle to stay alive. She’d planned her suicide and had every intent to carry out her plan. For decades she’d struggled with nightmares, flashbacks, addiction, self-abuse, compulsions, and other behaviors she simply couldn’t control. Rehab was a […]

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  Broken Places, Part 2

  Posted on July 24, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  The darkness. The compulsion to die. I couldn’t shake the obsession… no matter what I did.   I prayed. I read the Bible. I ate. I ate more. I got high. And tried to get higher each time I used.   I got numb. I zoned out. For months, my prayers had been short and to the point: “HELP!” […]

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