Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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"I would spend two months to three months in roc this is when post dramatic stress disorder first reared its head," she says. "And not only did it not lift, but i would find myself on the streets of a normal place where nothing bad was happening ... and i would feel this incredible anxiety,. This dread would just come over me like something terrible was about to happen."

Lulu Garcia-Navarro is a former war correspondent and host of NPR’s Weekend Edition. Her new podcast, for the New York Times, is First Person.

“I would always say that if you go cover a story and you already know what people are going to say, and you already have it in your head what the outcome is, and there's no surprise there, then that's a story that you shouldn't be working on. You have to allow the opportunity for there to be a journey. And for there to be something at the end of it, that is gonna be like, Wow. I really never thought that. I didn't think that I was coming here to report on that, but I guess that's what I'm here to report on.”

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