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...just that sense of release.

James Monk (US Air Force, 1988 - 2011) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

Transcript

Of course, when you first walk in

you're going to feel, it's going to feel awkward.

You're going to feel out of place,

but you're going to feel like you need to be there.

I was fortunate to have a really great therapist

the first time that I was in therapy,

and I spent almost two years under her care.

My therapist just made it very easy for me

to sit down and talk with her,

and it really seemed an awful lot like

that was really all that was happening.

We were in a room, nobody else was there,

and we were just talking.

It was a two-way conversation.

I wasn't laying on a couch with,

you know, a white noise machine or anything,

you know, no kind of voodoo going on.

But I know that just that sense of release was, yeah, it was

incomparable to anything I'd had to deal with previously.

There was no sense of release before.

And the opportunity to just sit down and speak with someone

really did make a huge difference in the way I felt.

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