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I had to go back 40 years….

Jerry Boggess (US Army, 1962 - 1986) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

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...scary.

Treatment was very scary.

Okay.

And the fact that

you have to go back.

I had to go back
40 some years

but it was so vivid.

That lady could
take me back.

I heard it, I saw it, I
smelled it, I felt it.

Everything.

And then, she just had me
doing these various things

such as cooking and

walking through stores,

getting used to people.

I could wanna go to a store

and go to that store

and look at the parking lot

and drive by the store.

Because I knew that there
was too many

people in there.

It was just kinda
weird things.

People that were on
a level higher than me

scared the living hell
out of me for many years.

And then I just did it.

Made myself do it.

She didn't make me.

We just worked out
these projects

and if she told me to
do something, I did it.

I made myself do it.

It may have took me a
couple of times

but I did do it.

I still do some of
them today.

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