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The PTSD clinic is for everybody. It's not just for Infantry.

Brad Seitz (US Marine Corps, 2002 - 2005) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

Transcript

I did have an issue in my group therapy sessions with a couple

of the members in my group therapy.

They were in different branches.

They weren't on the front lines like I was.

They were in the rear with the gear and they saw stuff

but the stuff they saw was injured Marines,

injured Army personnel.

They weren't actually affected themselves and I would get mad

when they're telling their story and here I am,

I mean I'm telling my story and you know, I was in Humvee

that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade

and I took an AK round to the foot.

And I'm telling mine and I'm like, "Man, I was like,

you guys are here and I don't feel like you need to be

in the same group as me.

I mean I bled and you didn't.

I was fighting every night and you didn't."

I've to come to realize that you need all kinds

of different wheels to make the machine run.

And it's not just the Infantry that deserves the, I guess,

the group therapy sessions or the help.

It's everybody.

I mean even if you just saw somebody injured

that can stick with you.

I mean it's another American, it's another brother or sister

to you that was injured.

Now I that I look back on it, that would stick with me

if I saw another one of my brothers or sisters go down.

The PTSD clinic is for everybody.

It's not just for Infantry or you know, it's for everybody.

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