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Treatment was hard.

Valerie Ovalle (US Army, 2004 - 2005) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

Transcript

Going through treatment was hard.

(laughs)

It was very hard.

You have to talk about your experiences.

You have to be committed to the homework

that they give you.

You have to be ready to get in the car

and go to the emergency room because

you're going to feel like your heart,

you're going to have a heart attack.

I mean, it was hard talking aout what I experienced

and what I felt,

and,

it is hard, but as time goes on

and you start progressing in your treatment,

it gets a little bit easier, you know?

I've never cried before and

this counselor, he had me crying because

he made me realize that

everything I had bottled up,

everything that I experience,

the losses that we had

in Iraq, in our hospital,

wasn't my fault and I was carrying that guilt

in me, so,

it gave me,

it gave me the reassurance that

everything I did while I was in Iraq

was for all the soldiers,

even if they passed or they came home.

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