Skip to content

It does provide some relief even though it triggered me.

Jeremiah Civil (US Marine Corps, 2001 - 2005) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

Transcript

I knew that I was gonna go into a session with my counselor

and I knew it was going to be a rough one and I knew the kind

of things he was gonna ask me about and get me to talk about.

And frigging heart's beating, you're racing

like crazy even an hour before you even get

to your visit 'cause you don't want to talk about this stuff

but you know you're going to have to and then you do

and it's a huge relief.

It does provide some relief even though it triggered me

in that fashion.

It took me an hour to calm down and be OK.

You notice after that hour or so of being triggered

that you get some relief.

You get some ahh [sighs] you know.

And the more that you do it, the better

and better it ends up being.

So sometimes in a safe environment,

in a controlled environment, sometimes it's good

to trigger yourself and to force yourself

into those uncomfortable positions 'cause it's

where you grow.

Published At