How retraining retired racehorses is helping veterans in Ipswich cope with PTSD and integrate back into life after service
By Rachel McGhee/ABC
Isaac Adams’s mental health journey since leaving the Australian Defence Force has been slow, but eight years on he’s at ease with his experiences and found a way to help other veterans cope after service.
The 32-year-old from Ipswich joined the army in 2008 at 18 years of age.
He served for five years as a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) operator and in that time was deployed to Afghanistan.
He voluntarily discharged in 2013 but upon leaving struggled to process what he had been through and found it difficult to integrate back into civilian life…