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I needed help with moral injury after going through various evidence-based treatments for PTSD.

Eddie Hoffman (US Marine Corps, 2001 – 2010) explains how it first became clear to him that he needed help with moral injury.

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It became clear to me that I

needed help
with moral injury after,

you know, having gone

through various evidence
based treatments for PTSD, like

cognitive processing therapy
and prolonged exposure therapy.

And there's still this piece
of it,

the self-loathing, the hatred
for myself, the, you know, the

I still felt guilty
for some of the things I did.

But on a deeper level
where it went against who

I am as a person
or had me questioning who I am.

Things like that.

And it wasn't...from all this
treatment I've been through.

There wasn't anything
that really seemed to fit.

And it became evident to me
that at least for me,

it wasn't just PTSD
that I was dealing with and

I needed something help
with something beyond that,

whether it was religious or
somebody that really understood

kind of what 
that deep seeded emotion was.

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