"Transcendental Meditation has taken the stress out of my life. It has made me relax. The anger is gone, the irritability is on a lesser scale, and I'm sleeping. I used to get three hours of sleep a night, and since I started [Transcendental Meditation], I'm getting eight to ten hours a day sometimes."
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Jace Badia: Overcoming and Healing Combat PTS
“I was angry. Very angry. Because I was no longer in the prime of my life. I went from being an able-bodied person to someone that had to rely on somebody else in the blick of an eye.”
“As soon as my boots touched ground in Iraq it was incredibly hot; it was incredibly scary. There was no way for me to vent – no way for me to relax because it was all mission-oriented. Stress is the only word that comes to mind.”