PTSD Army Veteran Talks About How Support Helps Healing

Army veteran gives advice to people with PTSD
KBTV FOX 4 News
by Jessica Crawford
January 5 2015

BEAUMONT

Baca says a support system helps veterans with PTSD achieve peace.

In 2010, Elvin Baca served as a specialist in the Army. During his one year tour, he lost two friends and suffered many injuries to his body.

It wasn't until he got home, however, that he realized his body wasn't the only thing that was scarred.

"You're fighting your mind a lot," says Baca. "You're telling yourself, you're not there anymore.

Nothing's going to happen." Baca is coping with post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. The disorder is something many veterans may struggle with as they return home from the war in Afghanistan this year.
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