Last year at the Conference on Current Pagan Studies I spoke about PTSD, what it was like coming home and what many of us are dealing with. While my dealings with some of experiences in Iraq may be rough and troublesome, the hardest part was coming home and returning to civilian life.
After everything that I had been through, and strangely enough, everything I have become accustom to, I had a much more difficult time integrating back into "normal" life and relating to "normal" people (civilians). I soon discovered that most people had equal difficulty relating to me. There were many awkward silences because they didn't know what or what not say, and neither did I.
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Thanks for writing this. I have been involved in the community for 30+ years. I wanted to add my voice on an aspect of this that p
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Not everyone is cut out for a prison ministry of presence, but everyone can actively engage in a community ministry of compassion.