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[With treatment] I can move forward.

Dan Alfaro (US Army, 2002-2014) describes how speaking to a therapist helped him move past his moral injury.

Transcript

I've been doing treatment
for long enough to know that

it was a safe space.

I could really tell the truth of
what was going on

and I didn't feel like
there was going to be any

judgment or legal ramifications
or anything of that nature.

But it's still very hard
to be able to

say these things out loud,
because if I speak them out loud

then they exist

and they're real
and they're not just in my head.

When I was able to speak amount

to somebody and have them have
somebody hear them,

it really gave me
the opportunity

to actually finally be able
to move past them

because I was like, okay,
they're here.

It's real.

It's true.

But now I can move forward.

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