Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is insidious, bringing with it an ever-present sense of danger and anxiety.
“That’s one of the things with PTSD,” says Shauna Watts, an Army veteran from Franklin. “Always feeling like you have to watch out for what’s behind you … that heightened awareness.”
Watts knows that feeling all too well. While she was serving in the military, she experienced several incidents of sexual violence, including being raped by her recruiter. Now, she suffers from PTSD and is still working on living with the trauma
