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One example of my homework assignments
making a breakthrough for me was I realized I was sad
when I thought about my old friend.
My old friend's name was Karl Soto.
He was my Gunner in Iraq, and he was shot by a sniper.
It made me sad to no end, and I understood that much of myself
before I started Cognitive Processing Therapy.
After I had started doing it,
they wanted me to talk more about him.
They had me do a whole homework assignment on him.
And they wanted to know how he died,
and I went through that with him, and that was
different for me because I had never thought about it.
You know, I understood that he was dead, but I hadn't really
thought about what upset me so much about it.
After a while, I realized that what I was feeling
wasn't sadness that my friend died, it was guilt.
I felt guilty that I wasn't there for him,
that I wasn't there to protect him from a sniper's bullet.
Or that if I had been there, I'd probably be dead, too.