What are your experiences with PTSD support groups? Would you recommend any group in particular?

For over two decades, a number of us in the the mil/vet community have been asking the same thing with little success. Now we as Americans, vets, and mental health providers can clearly see the need remains and many in our general population continue to ask for unbiased peer support groups for their areas.

We all need and deserve a nationwide, locally focused network of peer support groups for all those impacted by PTSD and other conditions.

With all the monies out there and the now thousands of charities existing, surely we can do actually more with less and more effectively at all levels.

I saw a VA counselor and she was amazing. She set up a support group for us in Greenville,NC. It was nice to talk to other veterans who had been through what I had been through. We were in different stages of dealing with it. I was deep in the self destruction stage and pushing everyone as far away as possible. No, my PTSD is not combat related and honestly it's always bothered me that everyone assumes that only combat can give you PTSD, there are horrors that can happen to a young female in the military who has never had to watch out for herself and was dumb enough not to. Anyways....

I think the most important thing a veteran or active duty military member suffering from PTSD is admit there is a problem and seek help. I don't know if she still works there and for the life of me I can't remember her name. But there are good people in the VA, working hard to help us. They are just overworked.

There are many good ones to choose from.