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He does a lot of things for himself now.

Melissa Hansen (Wife of a Veteran with PTSD) talks about how PTSD treatment changed things.

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He did learn, in therapy, to slow down

and also to talk about what he was going through.

And he's definitely slowed down a lot.

He does a lot of things for himself now, as well,

which, he never really did anything for himself.

So, he works on hobbies.

He can't handle one thing for too long

because his mind will kind of give out on him

if he tries to concentrate too hard on one thing at a time,

but he's started doing hobbies

and just working on things that make him happy.

He loves to garden, and he loves to do flowers,

and he has plants around the house that he takes care of.

And those kinds of things are therapeutic for him

and not something he would have

taken the time to enjoy, before.

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