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I'm very thankful that my father sought treatment...

Steve Sullivan (Son of a Veteran with PTSD) talks about how PTSD treatment changed things.

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I'm very thankful that my father sought treatment

and stuck with it and has stuck with

different doctors, and different programs,

and all manner of different approaches toward this because

there wasn't much of a person there

before he sought treatment.

It was kind of a shell of a person, just

vacant, sort of distant look in his eye.

Weren't really sure if he was listening,

you weren't sure if he was going to be around.

And years later, I know I can pick up the phone

and I can call him, and if he doesn't pick up,

five minutes later I'll be getting a phone call back.

I know where he's going to be, he's going to be home.

I know if I need something, I can call him,

and just like you would hope your father would be,

whatever he can do, he will do.

And that's something, when I was 12 or 13,

I didn't think I would ever, I would ever see again.

So it's very heartening to see him able to do everything

that he could do before this all, before this all came down.

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