Soldiers coming back home with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Of course, I read anything and everything I hear or read about post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd). I've been reading more and more about how Iraq vets are coming back with it and their lives are spinning out of control. The rate of suicide, homicide, divorce, substance abuse, job loss and homelessness is very high. While I have not GONE to war, I feel like I've been in a war right here fighting for my daughter's life.

Many of the same things these soldiers deal with, I deal with. I don't at all want to compare what I did with those who went off to fight, kill and die. It's in many ways completely different and I can't even imagine what that must be like. But I do know what it's like to be hyper vigilant, not able to pull myself back together again, feel and be and actually put myself in a very isolated lifestyle.

I feel like I've been in a battle. Except this was right here at home. But I so relate to the soldiers who are so young. Those whose lives are changed irrevocably probably. PTSD
seems to affect every area of life. I remember several years ago, I was sleeping and I was woken up by this horrible, shrieking. It sounded like someone was being brutally killed. It was my daughter shrieking in her sleep. She too has PTSD.

Who will help us too?