As executive director of the PTSD Foundation of America, David Maulsby has been sharing a good news-bad news message with the community.

The Tomball resident has been trying to get the word out about the devastating effects of post-traumatic stress disorder, but he also wants people to understand help is available.

“It's like any disease,” he said. “It can be treated. There is hope.”

PTSD is an anxiety disorder that can occur after a traumatic event. That event could be combat or military exposure, but anyone who has gone through a life-threatening event can develop PTSD, the foundation states...

FORT HOOD — Marching off to far-away battles used to be a dramatic, once-in-a-generation event at Fort Hood. Soldiers left to the sound of martial music, met the enemy in battle and then came home to years of peace. But since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, two divisions have gone to war, returned, and gone to war again and again and again, a process of revolving-door deployments so stressful that it's gotten a name — living in the new normal. Suicides, divorces, domestic violence, alcoholism and drug abuse are all part of the norm among soldiers deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan and coming home, but one woman closest to troops and their families said Thursday's shooting that left 13 dead and 28 wounded came right out of nowhere.