{"id":42689,"date":"2014-04-08T10:53:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T14:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=42689"},"modified":"2014-04-08T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:38:59","slug":"i-think-i-will-stick-to-self-medication-and-world-of-warcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=42689","title":{"rendered":"I think I will stick to self-medication and World of Warcraft."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been struggling all day to find something to write about that isn’t Ft Hood related.\u00a0 I think I found a winner<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Meet Max:<\/p>\n

\"Max\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lutz, Florida- Every year, millions of people in the United States are diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, but for some a doctor’s office just isn’t enough.<\/p>\n

“There’s 554 books in my house,” says Max Sanchez, a Vietnam veteran with an extensive book, video and picture collection that focuses on moments of war.<\/p>\n

Surrounded by memories of the battlefield, Sanchez says his time in the army- “Four years, six months, three days,”- is something he’ll never forget. “I can’t change what happened. There’s things that were good, and things that were bad.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now Max is a bit of a contradiction, in that he says he wants to forget his service, and yet he wears a military cap, has a gazillion military books, and is the only person I know with such a huge library of VHS tapes.<\/p>\n

Oh, and also, his “treatment” for PTSD involves walking around naked.<\/p>\n

According to Sanchez, he’s a part of a group of veterans who live at the Fountains at Paradise Lakes, a clothing-optional housing complex, where they find peace by going bare.<\/p>\n

“I forget about the whole world,” says Sanchez.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right now I would embrace virtually any way of excising from my memory the image of Max walking around naked, but to each their own I suppose.\u00a0 But, since I am a giving sort of person, I give you the strange tale of naked Max:<\/p>\n

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I suspect I am not the only one wondering “what did I just watch?”<\/p>\n

I think I will stick to playing World of Warcraft and walking my dog when I feel stressed out.\u00a0 I like wearing shoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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