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The only way to get better is to come out of your comfort zone.

Timm Lovitt (US Army, 2001 - 2006) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

Transcript

To be honest when I went in for the first couple of visits

for therapy, I didn't feel like it was a relief.

I felt kind of the opposite.

I felt like it was a hindrance.

I felt like I was being taken advantage of.

I felt, I kept asking myself: What am I doing here?

What are they gonna give me?

What are they gonna help me with?

I kept telling myself it was ridiculous, the techniques

that they told me were kind of BS, and I still kind

of think that, some of them.

But I persevered through it.

I mean, it's not easy going in there and telling people

about your issues that you haven't told to anybody.

But you got to keep doing it because there's going to be

that one little spark, that one little light bulb that lights

up that says, "That's a technique that I can use.

That's something that I can use that's practical, that's not,

you know, touchy-feely or whatever it is.

That's what I can use for me."

And once you got that one kind of line, then you begin

to kind of spider out.

You begin to figure out more things that help you.

It definitely does suck going in there the first couple of times

but you gotta go through it because the only way

to get better is to come out of your comfort zone.

If you don't come out of it then you're just going

to keep existing, keep doing the same thing but if you want

to get things better, then you have to go in and get treated.

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