I've always thought of PTSD being for deployments or war.

I would often think, "It's my fault,"

or I would take my situation and say,

"Well, my situation's really not that bad

compared to this person's because look what happened to them.

At least this didn't happen to me."

And I would kind of minimize the impact and think,

"Oh, should I waste these people's time?

My situation's not that bad."

I would often feel like it was my fault, somehow,

because I was blamed for so long for it.

I've always thought of PTSD being, like,

for deployments or war, and I never really

thought of myself as having it.

And after seven years of therapy, I finally had a doctor

point out to me that it would be really good

if I went through this treatment, and it really was.