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After going through PTSD treatment...there was some more things that I needed to understand.

Michael Allison (US Marine Corps, 1999-2007) explains how he came to understand why he was feeling so guilty and ashamed.

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After going through some of

the PTSD treatment,
I did feel like

there was some more things
that I needed to understand

and get a full grasp
of what moral injury was to me

because I never understand
the full scope of

why was I feeling so guilty
and so ashamed.

Only felt comfortable either

around either other veterans
or some that some of the times

I may be around veterans
and there will be things

that triggered things
for myself.

And then it brought me back
to some flashbacks.

It brought me back to

some of those times in space

where I was that before
when I was in Iraq,

and then that immediately
started triggering things

for me, where it either
shut me down

or either brought me
into the space

of feeling guilt and ashamed,

knowing what
I did when I was overseas.

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