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It's kind of like role playing...

Chris Antonio (US Army, 1999 - 2007) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

Transcript

The program that I went through was six weeks long,

and it was about facing the triggers and re-living --

it's kind of like role-playing.

You have to put yourself back into that situation

as best as you can without hurting yourself.

You have to put yourself back in those situations

as best you can and being very repetitive.

And the repetition, as we know, is the mother of all learning,

and that's what it was.

It was learning how to face your fear,

accept what had happened to you, and know that it's OK.

It's gonna be OK, you don't have to go through that anymore.

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