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I knew I was not the same soldier.

Timothy Laynor, US Army 2003 - 2011, talks about why he didn't ask for help with his PTSD right away.

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I knew I was not the same soldier but then I had

to come back and say, "Well what was it

that would make me feel that way?"

It was a self-confidence issue.

The image that was going

on through soldiers' heads were: You're broken.

You're broken mentally.

You're never going to be the same.

We got to take you off the front line.

You're no good no more.

Or the glimpses

of the Vietnam-era Vets or the Gulf War Vets.

You're going to be unemployed and homeless

because you have this disease that's

out there and that's not true.

Every person who, not only is said to have PTSD,

but if they can define it with them self as,

"This is what I have," and they can find the treatment

that works for them to help them get

over that hump, they'll go back.

They'll find out who they once were

and they'll become that soldier again.

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