DALLAS -- Kathy Schneider was afraid to be alone. She struggled to go into bathrooms and couldn’t get out of the car at the store with her husband.
Schneider is a U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force veteran who spent 30 years on and off active duty as an embedded combat nurse. She retired from the military with the rank of captain and a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, an invisible but debilitating disability.
Her triggers are everywhere. Something as simple as someone walking up behind her can send her into a fugue state, she said.
