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Because of the severity of his PTSD
and how far he has come in the last couple of years,
that's what enables him to help people.
Because he knows how it feels to be locked inside yourself
and to not want to leave the house
and not want to be with people
and to not know who you are anymore,
what your place in the world is.
Because for years, he did not know what his place was.
He didn't know if he would ever have a place in life.
He didn't know if he would ever be able to work again
or be around people.
He tried a couple of times,
and at first, he had failure because he hadn't been helped yet.
He hadn't gone through the therapy or the process to
get better, and over the years, as he has healed --
and it has been a long process.
It's not going to happen overnight.
This healing has taken us six years,
and it's been a family effort and definitely a VA effort.
I think without the support, definitely, of family and VA,
he wouldn't have come so far, but he knows how it feels.
He'll never forget how it feels, and so, now that he has
come so far, he is in a place where he can help people.
Because he knows how it feels to kind of
come out of that darkness and be alive again.