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It's not only never too late to get help with PTSD,
it's never too late to discover the trigger
that you hadn't ever seen or heard before.
And I had a really marvelous successful chance
to help a friend of a friend, a man I'd never met
who is a career person.
And my good friend, another career person in the Army
who knew I had PTSD and that I'd been working my way through it
for years, called me up and said, "I've got a friend
and he's having a horrible time, he can't sleep,"
and named a few other symptoms.
And said, "Can you help him?"
And so I said, "Sure, I'd be happy to talk to him."
And I talked to the guy.
I don't know his name.
I don't know his rank.
He was in the Army, that much I know.
And everything he described to me were things I was familiar
with that either were my symptoms or the other people
in the other groups that I've been.
Although he was really surprised that he would have PTSD
at this point in his life, but the trigger
in his case was his son was on orders for Afghanistan.
And suddenly the PTSD, he might say it didn't have,
but surely it was there waiting to be awakened
by a trigger event, he suddenly was having nightmares
and explosive anger outbursts and withdrawing from people,
just many, many of the severe symptoms of PTSD.
I recently, a year and a half after all of this
or so asked my friend, "Well, how's your friend doing,
the guy that I was trying to get help with PTSD?"
And the answer came back with a great big smile, "Oh,
he's doing great, fantastic.
He got what he needed for help and it's working for him."