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I probably wouldn't have gone to get help
except my father had a heart attack.
And he's a Veteran, and the VA took spectacular --
they saved my father's life.
And I had not registered as a Veteran at that time,
and my father, who, I've seen him cry twice.
He cried on my wedding day,
and he cried when his mother died.
And he asked me with tears in his eyes to register
as a Veteran because if I ever needed that help,
he wanted to make sure I had it.
I was supposed to go into San Francisco, and I couldn't go,
I couldn't do it.
I had to call my mom, who, at that time we didn't have a
great relationship, but I didn't have anybody else to turn to,
and I had to ask her to take me in because I knew
I couldn't drive up there by myself.
And she sat with me, and I was shaking, and I was crying
because I knew I was going to have to talk about it,
to talk about my experience, to talk about my symptoms,
to talk about being broken.
And at that point I realized if I can't even do that,
something is wrong, and it's time to fix it.
So that process of the evaluation was what really
made me say, "OK, I need treatment."