Health Matters Anxiety and Depression: PTSD
When Christina R. Silva was 19, she joined the U.S. Marine Corps because of her father’s legacy of service as a US Army Soldier during the Vietnam Era and the innate desire to make a difference through the elite training offeredby the Marines. The native of Louisiana discovered during her first week of boot camp that there was a sacrificial cost to earn a Meritorious Mast as a woman. Silva experienced a series of devastating events that lead to an instant impactof mental, e