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The day my son told me I was
bringing the Colonel out all the time broke my heart.
I love him more than life itself.
The only other people I love more than him
are his little girls.
And I just didn't ever want to go back there
because I didn't want him to have to experience that again,
or my granddaughters.
I really thought I was depressed.
I really didn't think that PTSD was that big a problem
because I'd had so much
what I thought was good treatment for it.
But the VA uses specific tools that are paper-and-pencil tools
that have been used with hundreds of thousands of people,
both military and civilian, and there's a special form
for civilians, a special form for military people,
and they don't keep this information secret.
So, the very first day there, when I filled out the checklist
for PTSD symptoms and I filled out the checklist
for depression symptoms, that information was shared with me
immediately, and the tool was explained to me.
And so, I was shocked I had moderate to severe PTSD
and I had moderate depression.
And so I very much, I was relieved really
because I didn't like the person I had become.