Richard R RamosRichard R. Ramos. Founder of Parents on a Mission,Youth on a Mission, and Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

Understanding PTSD and How It Affects Everyday Life!

9 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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A psychotherapist asks the speaker to design a program for human-trafficking survivors. The speaker shares how PTSD surfaces unexpectedly: a shadow cast by their tall husband during dinner triggered a flashback, a response the therapist identified as classic trauma. The goal is to rewire the brain's trauma patterns.

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And this lady came to me on lunch and she was crying and she said, um, so I'm the psychotherapist. Would you be open to build the, uh, program for human trafficking survivors? Because I was working a lot with the kids with mental health challenges and God put it on my heart to actually create this program because they need to create, um, rewire their brain. So what, what, how I understand. So I tell you this way. So when I have a pattern, for example, it's imprinted in my brain and I couldn't figure out why this is happening because I'm more stable, I'm more calm. But every time we have an argument at the table when we eating together and my husband stands up, stand up, I'm on his right hand, I'm sitting in his right hand. And he's 6 feet tall. So when his shadow on me, I, I'm literally, I'm having— she explaining to me it's PTSD with flashbacks.