Tuesday, April 28, 2015

PTSD Veterans Find Healing With Horses

Equine therapy helping local veterans
Horses help veterans suffering with PTSD
WESH 2 News Orlando
By Dave McDaniel
UPDATED 6:10 PM EDT Apr 28, 2015

Veterans and first responders receive therapy at S.A.D.L.E.S. free of charge.

ORLANDO, Fla. —You might not know it just by looking at him, but Lance Cpl. Chris Brooking has only recently returned from the battlefield. Sometimes the scars of war can be seen and other times completely hidden.

Brooking's wounds weren't only the visible kind. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

“I couldn't bring myself to even walking around the neighborhood, constantly being on guard, on high alert, crazy uncomfortable,” he said.

The recipient of a Purple Heart after being injured in Afghanistan, Brooking wasn't the same when he came home.

“I was very uncomfortable in every day situations,” he said.

“Whenever I talked with him, I felt I had to walk on eggshells, because sometimes anything I said would set him off,” said his wife, Katie Brooking.
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