{"id":254670,"date":"2025-11-01T04:08:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254670\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T04:08:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T04:08:22","slug":"fireworks-set-off-panic-attacks-shropshire-veteran-with-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/254670\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks set off panic attacks &#8211; Shropshire veteran with PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr White also said more awareness was needed around PTSD among veterans to ensure it was not misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not just about feeling scared or feeling a bit upset; it really can set back people&#8217;s recovery journey by months or sometimes years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has such a massive impact upon careers and relationships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added, &#8220;I went for weeks at a time when I couldn&#8217;t go into work because the anxiety was so bad, it would cripple me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he described the support he received from Combat Stress, a charity which supports veterans with mental health, as &#8220;life-changing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Through the charity&#8217;s help, he said he was no longer triggered by fireworks but understood that may not be the same experience for others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr White also said more awareness was needed around PTSD among veterans to ensure it was not misunderstood.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-254670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}