Transcript
To the person who is watching this now
thinking about going into therapy, I say go.
You don't have to commit to anything, you can walk away
at any time, so what are you scared of?
You can go into any VA in the whole country
and just tell them, "You know, I think I might have PTSD."
That is not such a weird thing to hear anymore.
It's totally normal for anybody coming back from Iraq,
anybody coming back from Afghanistan,
anybody coming back from any kind of a war zone.
These people are looking for you, they need you
to go to therapy, they're trying to get you in there.
The least you could do is hear them out.
You're sitting at home, you're thinking,
"I have, I can deal with all of this on my own."
And I used to be the same way, I used to think
exactly the same thing, was that I was dealing with it.
But the fact is I would run into old war buddies
and it would start this endless cycle all over again.
I'd start re-experiencing trauma from meeting a guy
who was just fine, and I didn't understand it.
If you go to therapy, they understand it.
They can help you understand it.
They can help you change things in a way that
you are not going to be able to do on your own.
And the fact is that they're not trying to force
anything out of you.
You can give it all, or you can give it nothing at all.
It's simply a matter of how much you want to feel better.