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Just the word mental health brought fear.

Ginger Mercer, US Army 1992 - 1994, talks about why she didn't ask for help with her PTSD right away.

Transcript

I wanted to avoid it.

I wanted to not.

There was a certain time where I had shoved

all my feelings and trauma, from the trauma that happened,

I had shoved it down so far that

I was afraid if I started dealing with it,

I would fall apart and I wouldn't be able to function.

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