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I couldn't understand why it was him and not me...

Edward Baldisari (US Army 1965 - 1969) talks about how PTSD treatment can help.

Transcript

Now they call it survivor's guilt.

And I couldn't understand why, ya know,

it was him and not me.

We were close together, we weren't that far apart

from each other.

Why the mortar got him, and I was left unscathed,

I didn't have a scratch on me,

other than dirt from the explosion.

And for years and years it bothered me.

And I tried to wrestle with it,

and I tried to cope with it,

and come up with solutions

and never could do anything

until I started going to cognitive therapy.

And we started going through it step by step.

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