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I tell people all the time, we don't hold hands and sing Kumbaya.

Josef Hyatt (US Marine Corps, 1994 - 2004) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

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Most people, there's a stigma about peer support that,

you know, we don't hold hands, I tell people all the time,

we don't hold hands and sing Kumbaya.

We don't do that crap.

We are Veterans that, we get together and we talk

about what we've been through.

I have found for me that I won't tell anybody jack

but tell you what, I find out a guy's a Jarhead or Squid

or Doggie, I'm gonna tell them, yeah,

the stories just start flying and you remember a lot of things

and you talk about a lot of things.

It's completely confidential.

What you say there, stays there.

What you see, there stays there.

It's just a place where you can go and talk about you.

There needs to a marriage

between clinical and peer support.

You can't get cured by clinical by itself.

You can't get cured or made better

by peer support by itself.

Of course, everybody's different

but when you have a marriage there between the clinical side

and the peer support side, it helps.

It makes, it works.

It works.

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