This group is dedicated to those who suffer from a trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), those at risk for PTSD, and those who care for traumatized individuals. "It is difficult to convey to the average non-traumatized person how frightening, disorienting, and upsetting it is to experience intrusive flashbacks to horrors of the past. For one who is suffering or who has suffered from PTSD there are times when the only thing that can help ease the tension of the day is an understanding friend. This group will understanding and support its members by giving them the means to connect with each other. As a result PTSD sufferers and survivors provide for themselves the support and acknowledgement that in some ways they are the only ones qualified to provide. For me, being able to talk with other people who know what it is like to react to an innocuous statement with strong emotion, who understand uncalled for tears and uncontrolled shaking, who can sympathize with extended sleepless nights -- well this is the gift.