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I would highly suggest to any Veteran coming into our clinic
that they get an evidence-based treatment.
There are many treatments out there for PTSD,
but there are only a few, a handful maybe,
that have solid scientific evidence,
that have been proven to work.
There's also been a lot more evidence
in the last just five years in the VA
that Prolonged Exposure therapy
or Cognitive Processing Therapy can really work well
in Veteran populations.
Sometimes I think they might even work better than in some
other populations because Veterans are used to facing fears,
Veterans are used to doing difficult things.
We really want to craft our therapies to match the strengths
of the Veterans in front of us, and if there's something
that separates out Veterans from non-Veterans,
and I'm not sure that there is, people are typically people,
but if there is, I think it's that Veterans have been through
difficult experiences and they know what it takes to get
through more difficult experiences.
It's a strength of theirs.