A Million Dollars..now where to spend it (not a story)

A Million Dollars and No Where To Spend It

    Winning money is a great thing for many people even those who are already rich beyond

belief but if there was a catch and all that money had to be spent on someone else most people

would probably not even attempt to enter in the contest at all or like I have heard spend the

money on their parents then get it back from them because hey, they’re your parents. But in my

point of view if the money had to spend on someone else, I would donate it to relieve single

mothers and fathers around the world who had lost their spouses to Post traumatic Stress Disorder

(PTSD) because of war. PTSD is a disorder that is develops when a person is exposed to a

traumatic event that had left the person helpless, and sometimes the feeling never disappears,

instead it haunts the person changing him/her into a completely different person.

    The main reason behind my desire to donate my winnings to the PTSD cause is primarily

because one day I know my brother will be one of the men fighting for our country. With his

mind set on joining the military, I know there is a risk that he might become one of the people

fighting PTSD. However, after hearing so many stories about wives living with husbands who

had returned from war with PTSD, it’s hard not to feel the need to help them. Some of the stories

were extremely hard to listen too because it said a lot about not only how much the person had to

suffer in war but how much their family suffered with them. One story that particularly struck

me was the one about a husband that had returned from war physically uninjured but mentally

scared. His wife loved him but she just couldn’t trust her husband around their son because his

case of PTSD included such vivid nightmares that sometimes harmed their child. Just listening to

the story had a profound effect on me but I couldn’t really do anything to help but if I received a

million of dollars, donating money to help people with PTSD would be on my number one list of

things to do.

    To put it briefly, my reasons to donate to the PTSD cause are both gallant and selfish, I want

to protect my brother from risks of PTSD and at the same time I want to help families out there

who are already suffering from results of PTSD. If a million dollar donation could help finance

the research for treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder then I would gladly donate the

money.