Monday, February 23 2009 - Saving Each Other
Patricia and Pat Harris
Researchers are just beginning to understand how active duty combat affects women and men differently. One thing they have learned is that female soldiers are more likely to experience Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Pat Harris served in the first Gulf War and came home with classic signs of PTSD. She would crack the windows to find enemies and shop online to avoid the supermarket meat aisle. But while Pat was gone, her then 9-year-old daughter Patricia was going through trauma as well - in her case, at the hands of an abusive caregiver. The two women talk with Dick Gordon about how they helped one another reintegrate to normal life.
- Learn more about the organization Pat Harris founded to help women veterans
- Music in this story: My Girl by Laurence Juber for the album Pop Goes Guitar
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