How veterans are using virtual reality to cope with PTSD

Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Tonya Oxendine, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for nine hard years before she began her path to recovery. Her pain reached a point where, one day after leaving her desk at the Pentagon, she was considering driving off a bridge. “I was at the…

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