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Therapy is probably the hardest thing to do…

Jerry Boggess (US Army, 1962 - 1986) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

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Therapy is probably
the hardest thing to do

because in my mind,
after 40-some years

nobody had any idea what
I went through.

Nobody could relate to me.

I could even talk to some
vets that are my age,

that have been through
similar things.

It still wasn't easy to
talk to them.

So, in my mind I kept
saying, "There's

just no way.

"There's just no way that
this young lady

"is going to have any idea
where I'm coming from."

She didn't have
to be there.

I was there, and she
brought it out.

When I first started
talking to her the

answer is no.

It did not feel good.

I can tell you on the
second session

when we really

started gettin' into
it there was times when

I said, "I'm leaving."
in my mind.

Like, "I've got to get
out of here."

But I didn't, because I
wanted to stay

because I made up my mind
all too late in life.

I made up my mind, "I'm
going to do this.

"I'm going to do
this for me,

"and the people that are
still around me."

That's why I did it.

I just wanted to prove
to myself that

I could handle it, I
could do it.

I knew I needed help,
because I'd tried

many years

and I did do some things
that were right, I guess,

but I knew that there
was somebody out there

that was a hell of a lot
smarter than me.

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