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I said to myself, "This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. I don't have PTSD."

Harold Bud Smith (US Air Force, 1959 - 1962) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

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That first visit with a psychiatrist,

he started asking me some questions.

When I was answering him, it didn't take long for him to say

to me, "I think that we gotta run some tests on you.

These are just question and answer tests,

nothing to be concerned about."

And I said to myself, "This guy doesn't know what he's

talking about.

I don't have PTSD."

[laughs] And I find it foolish now.

But after I had all the tests, I scored really high.

I mean, he said really high on the PTSD scale.

And I still didn't believe it.

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