A Dog and the Open Road: One Veteran’s Prescription for PTSD
“Each time you leave on a convoy, you think, this could be it. You don’t talk. You just hold your breath and react to what comes. You push down that constant fear of death. I think this is what PTSD is. You train for this … this ‘fear learning.’ You learn to constantly scan for danger, scan for threats and it gets hardwired into your brain. Not sure how to unlearn that. I’m still working on it.” — Retired US Army Sgt. Angela Peacock
BrainLine.org, WETA Public Broadcasting, January 2022