“When Shawney Bennati was in the Air Force from 2009 to 2018, she deployed for a time to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, working in materials management and volunteering in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
What she saw in the ICU and felt during the regular mortar attacks on the base left her with post-traumatic stress disorder, which manifested itself upon her return to the United States.
She sought relief in the form of “exposure” talk therapy and medication.
Neither proved ideal, but Bennati recently began neurofeedback therapy at the Van Zandt VA Medical Center, where she works, and she’s optimistic that she’s found the answer to her problem.”