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I think making the decision about coming into treatment,
if you're not sure that it's going to be helpful to you,
I think it's like any other skill.
If you don't try it, you won't ever master it.
Think of it like learning how to ride a bicycle.
The first time you rode a bike, you keeled over, right?
And that might have been the case for the first several times,
but you kept at it, and you became proficient.
The first time you go for help for PTSD,
you're going to keel over,
it's not going to feel good, most likely.
You're going to be fighting a lot of chatter in your head
about whether or not you should be there,
what does it mean, so on and so forth.
And you may need to take a break from it,
just like you might have needed to take a break from the bike
for a couple of days, and then, you know,
they always say get back on the horse, get back on the bike.
Once you're comfortable with sticking with treatment,
then you can really practice.
You can really practice riding the bike.
You can really listen to yourself and to the other folks
in the group that you're going to or to your psychiatrist
or psychologist and put into practice some
of the different ways of thinking about things,
some of the different techniques that you're learning
in the groups, and you can become proficient at
making PTSD a less important part of your life.