Former U.S. Army medic Sergio Alfaro returned from Iraq with the realities of war burned into his mind.
Sergio Alfaro is a 39-year-old veteran of the Iraq War. The former U.S. Army medic returned from Iraq with the realities of war burned into his mind. In this piece, Alfaro talks about his journey from his darkest days to the moment of breakthrough when he realized — after years of therapy and help — that everything would be OK.
It's not anything I'm ever going to be able to escape from. And it's the thing that I have to work towards being able to accept every day. When I returned home, I remembered this feeling of,"I got a second lease on life." And I'd had these moments, too, of disconnection — a disconnection of myself, where I would enter into this kind of zombie mode and I would be a raging storm on the inside, full of emotion, of either anxiety or fear or of anger.
And I'll tell you what, I pulled myself up so hard by those bootstraps, I pulled those damn straps off. But, if I could try to help you save yourself from a mistake that I made over and over again, sometimes the harder thing is getting the help you need.
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