Angie

S1, E2: Angie Peacock swerves her car dangerously away from a piece of trash on the highway; in her mind, it was an IED. She sits with her back to the wall in restaurants to monitor who enters. In crowds, her heart races and she resists the urge to run. After returning from Iraq with severe PTSD, Angie spiraled into addiction to painkillers that had been her only way to sleep. She called the VA suicide hotline on a Saturday only to be told the crisis line was only open Monday to Friday. Hard drugs followed, and then 6 suicide attempts. With the help of a service dog, named G.I. Joe, Angie learns to brave crowds enough to attend community college in St. Louis, where she rediscovers her love of learning. She starts a student veterans organization on a campus lacking community and, gaining her own stability, she peer-mentors Dennis, who has a severe traumatic brain injury and is learning to walk again. We follow her as she faces down her fears in new and surprising ways.