SALEM, Va. – The Fourth of July can be a joyous time for some people, but for some veterans dealing with PTSD, it can be triggering.
“For any veteran oftentimes holidays like Memorial Day, Labor Day, the Fourth of July are really significant emotionally and just important and might bring up strong emotions but for our veterans who maybe have had combat exposures or other kinds of exposure to trauma events and they experience PTSD symptoms the Fourth of July sometimes can bring up really intense emotions in particular related to parades or gathering or things like that,” said Clinical Psychologist Dr. Sarah Voss Horrell at Salem VA Medical Center’s Center for Traumatic Stress.
Voss Horrell also said fireworks can bring up intense emotions…