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A Pandora's Box

A Parisian-style picnic in the town of Echo seemed innocent enough

After I had had a few suicide attempts, a concerned drug and alcohol counselor managed to place me into a long-term psychiatric program. It was the very first time I had heard the term PTSD. I drank to stop the noise in my head stemming from my combat experience in Vietnam.

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