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There's something about when you put things into voice, your own voice...

Josef Hyatt (US Marine Corps, 1994 - 2004) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

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There's something about when you put things into voice,

your own voice and your thought process and you speak it out,

that a lot of those little bundles of stuff in there,

they just kind of unwind and before you know it,

when I used to talk about some things, I'd shake.

I'd just kind of tremble a little bit.

I'd get angry.

I'd yell. I cry, you know.

. And now, it's OK.

It is what it is.

And for some reason, it still hurts, don't get me wrong

but it's not like what it was.

I tell people it's like lifting a weight.

You first start lifting a weight, "Man, it's heavy,"

and then the next day you're sore.

It hurts. Well you keep it up

and eventually you're doing it easily

but you're still picking up a weight.

You know what I'm saying?

You're still picking something heavy up.

The only difference is that you are now conditioned to be able

to pick it up so it doesn't hurt so bad anymore.

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