Tonight on 20/20 was a piece about a storm chaser, Jim Reed (you can apparently find his work at UltimateChase.com) who together with his chase partner, actively seeks out crazy weather of all kinds… hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, flooding, winter storms, etc.

He has, as you might expect, accumulated quite a collection of breathtaking video and still photos.

He has also developed PTSD, and is “receiving treatment” for it. The news piece cited some heart-wrenching circumstances as being difficult for him — hearing people trapped and crying for help when he physically could not help them, for instance. Completely and totally understandable; that’d screw anybody in the head for a while.

What I find odd though, is that he keeps going back.

The first tenet of treating PTSD is to remove yourself from the source. Read the rest of this entry