Living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a constant struggle between the past and present, and it can be easy to get lost in the chaos of our own minds. There’s every good reason in the world to feel confused, so here’s a list of things to try to remember. 1.) You’re not weak It’s easy to look at how difficult it can be to do seemingly simple things and feel incredibly weak and small. PTSD doesn’t happen to people that have had an easy life, and it is no fault of yours t

Human trafficking and sexual slavery are extremely difficult to talk about, not only because of the heavy nature of the subject, but because even though millions of people are affected by it, its dealings are mostly done in the dark. A person could live their whole life as a slave and nobody would ever know. In fact, this happens often. Estimates of how many slaves exist today vary widely, with estimates starting at 20,000,000 going all the way to 36,000,000. It is my persona

The utilization of service dogs to help those suffering from Post­ Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a young discovery and has primarily been used for veterans returning from war.Situations that can cause PTSD vary widely, though the types of organizations that provide service dogs as treatment tend to only include veterans. The symptoms involved in PTSD have actually been studied for years in regards to women living in domestic situations long before they were studied in v