I’m SGT Ralph “Malachias” Gaskin, currently serving and waiting for my
retirement. I have been dealing with PTSD for five years now and have deployed
twice to Iraq. I spent nine years in the Indiana Army National Guard, took a
three year break in service and have been on Active duty since April of 2006. I
spent nine years in the Infantry and the rest as a Combat medic. I was blessed
on my second deployment to Iraq to be part of an Army Rock and country band
playing music for my brothers and sisters in arms.
I started looking into alternative
methods of therapy for PTSD and found a few things that have worked for me.
Organic Gardening, Music and growing deeper in my personal faith. I am excited
to have the chance to blog for Not Alone, and hope that through my musings and
writings I can help at least one person. I co-authored “Traitmarker for PTSD”
with Robbie Grayson earlier this year and hope to release my first solo book
before thanksgiving called “A warriors garden”. Gardening and music is where my
heart has led me too. I hope by sharing my thoughts with all of you that it
might inspire you to take an active lead in your own personal healing.
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