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I think a lot of people think that if you're sitting around
with folks who have experienced the same thing that you have,
you've been through the same actions, same fight,
and in some cases you were there together, that all you need
is somebody who understands what you went through
to sit there and talk about it, and things will be fine.
The problem with that is, in my case,
you just end up commiserating about what went on.
And before you know it, you're, you haven't done anything
but get yourself back in a mental state, in a mental frenzy
of what you went through and how you can try and fix it
now, a year, two years, six months, two days after the fact.
So, while it's nice that you can have people to talk to
who understand, because the general person on the street
who's never been in the military or never experienced,
in my case, Iraq or Afghanistan -- Iraq, for me,
my son was in Afghanistan, so I kind of experienced
a little bit of that through him -- the general person on the
street who's never been in the military or experienced it,
they don't know what you're talking about,
so you don't talk to them.
And the person that can really help you
is the trained professional.