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"I found my brothers there in support, that's what it took."

Claudio Calvo (US Marine Corps, 1968 - 1971) talks about how PTSD treatment can help.

Transcript

I believe that's when I really, really started working on

the PTSD, with the Here and Now group, when I found

my brothers there in support, that's what it took.

Going one-on-one with a therapist is not enough.

When I did the group with the Here and Now, we were proud.

We shared the same thing, we had the same scars,

we had the same problems.

It didn't matter where we were, when we served

over there, what branch we served.

We shared the same situation, the same horror.

We shared the same effects when we came back.

That's when it really hit me, and I said,

"OK, now this is what's working."

When you hear someone else share their story

and you feel the same pain, the same joy,

the same laughter as that Veteran that went through

the same thing you do, that's when you feel,

"I'm not alone!

Boy, I'm not a freak.

We're all the same, we've experienced the same thing."

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