Having PTSD is a very lonely, lonely experience.

Having PTSD is a very lonely, lonely experience.

People have thoughts that come back to them,

and they experience those, typically, alone.

They don't share them, typically.

The nightmares, again, we experience that alone.

And then we've got symptoms that make us want to isolate,

that make us want to be away from crowds,

make us want to be away from intimacy.

So, the whole disorder kind of sets us up to feel lonely

and be lonely, and one of the things these first couple

sessions of PE does is help people not feel

so alone anymore and help generate a conversation for,

a vocabulary for these symptoms

that maybe they have been experiencing as a very lonely thing.