When I saw this on Facebook, it reminded of many things we go through in life, not just PTSD. There are often many "solutions" offered for problems in life, but few people are willing to get their hands dirty and help. When the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous were considering how best to help their Brothers and Sisters, they realized that the only people who could really help each other was fellow-strugglers, people who had been, or were still in the same "ditch". It is not the "try-harder" self-help-guru, the "let's talk about it" "professional", or even the "get-religion" "evangelist" who will join in the struggle, but the person who has already been beaten-up, but still has more fight left in them, who will come alongside their Brother or Sister, and help them shoulder the load.

About eighteen months ago, I had the privilege of coming-alongside a young lady who had just lost her husband, a Veteran, to suicide, because twenty years before that, I had lost my wife to suicide. I understood her grief and loss far-better than the majority of the people who had come to pay their last-respects to her husband.