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They're not trying to hurt you. They're not trying to do anything bad to you.

Chris Swift (US Army, 1999-2018) describes how he realized it was safe to open up about his experiences during treatment.

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You have

to kind of bite the bullet.

You don't have to just like,

open up and say, all right,

from A to Z, tell him everything

that's happened. You just,

you can go little by little

and then you open up

more and more,

and then you become vulnerable,

and then you let people in,

and then, you know,

because they’re not

trying to hurt you.

They're not trying to do

anything, anything bad to you.

They're actually there to help.

And that's the hardest thing,

you know, when you take that

first step. Going in

is, that's tough enough,

And then having to open up

and be vulnerable that-

a lot of times, you know,

that was looked as weakness.

Now, thankfully it's

kind of changed a little bit.

The tone, it's now

looked as a strength.

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