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Auditory Hallucinations, Rage, Alleged Domestic Violence Send Vet With PTSD To Jail
The tattoo on the inside of Justin York’s left arm is hard to discern. Glancing at it one way, you can see the word “Life.” If you look at it another way, it reads “Death.”
If you look at it without knowing how to read it, it looks like an ornate, inky blue blur.
Life and death blurred together for the 25-year-old U.S. Army veteran to such a degree that he left his beloved Army with an extreme rating for post-traumatic stress disorder, making him unable to continue wearing the uniform.
Now he finds himself trapped inside an Adams County Jail cell, in an unwanted uniform of a different color.
Arrested in late December on a felony charge of resisting law enforcement with a weapon, York is desperate to get out, to get the charge reduced to the misdemeanor he feels is more appropriate and to get back to treatment for his PTSD.
In the four months he’s been in the small windowless cell in the jail, York’s symptoms have raged back — with auditory hallucinations of people crying out in pain or yelling his name. His wiry physical frame practically hums with the rage he’s trying to contain — anger at the system that has put him somewhere he does not believe he belongs and his inability to get free of it. MOREHERE
and the washington chickenhawks still haven’t gotten their fill o fwar
I hope he wasn’t given an SSRI for his PTSD, becuase in my experience it makes the hallucinations much more intense, but then so does alcohol just that it wears off in a few hours.