Transcript
My assignment was to listen to that tape every day
with my eyes closed and to keep a pad and a little cheat sheet
that she gives you, actually, and I would write down my number
when I felt myself fall apart.
And then the second week, I went back,
the same process was repeated,
and the third week, the same process was repeated,
and so on until about,
I would say four or five weeks into the process,
my breakdowns during the taping were so different.
I would say the first time I did it,
that was hard, hard, hard pain.
By fourth or fifth week, it felt like a soft pain,
just soft and sad.
And every week, before we started this process,
she would give me the tools again to rate my symptoms
for PTSD, for depression,
and she would tell me what they were.
There were no secrets in this therapeutic process.