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I came away from that first session thinking, "You know, maybe they can do something for me."

Robert Murphy (US Army, 1966 - 1969) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

Transcript

Getting yourself together to look for the help,

professional help, and you're told, "OK, you're going

to be interviewed by a psychiatrist."

For me, I didn't, to be totally honest my thought was,

"They're going to find out I'm crazy and they're going

to lock me up and put me away."

Because I know that some of my behaviors were predicated

on my emotional state.

And the institutions are full of people that wound up there

by doing things in a bad emotional state.

But my fears were unwarranted.

Conversely what happened, I really didn't want to go in

and talk with the shrink,

that it had also attacked my masculinity, my manhood,

my sense of "I can handle it," when in fact,

I was falling apart inside.

And what transpired, I came away

from that first session thinking, "You know,

maybe they can do something for me."

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