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I recently worked with a Veteran who, we determined together
that his use of alcohol was a short-term strategy
that was sort of continuously putting him into precarious
situations and something he was really struggling with,
and he had to stop drinking in order to make treatment
for PTSD a success, and that was very tough for him.
I have a lot of respect because drinking did work,
to a certain extent, for him.
However, he was having encounters with the law and
blacking out when he was drinking
and chose to reduce his use of alcohol -- he actually didn't
even eliminate it, he just reduced it so it wasn't
at such a problematic level -- so he could engage in therapy.
And that was very tough for him, very hard for him.
I have another, somebody else I'm working with,
he also struggles with childcare.
His wife works full-time, and they split child care duties,
and so making time for treatment was really difficult
for that gentleman, and it required him to sort of
harness other resources, so he had to convince his
mother-in-law to spend an evening a week with his daughter
so that he could make time to get into treatment.