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When I attended the peer groups, all male Veterans.
I was the only female Veteran.
The male Veterans allowed, you could bring your spouse with you
so the females that I saw there were spouses
to other male Veterans.
And I would approach them after the session
and say, "Are you a Veteran?"
They'd say, "No, I'm the spouse."
And so I finished those treatments
and then my mind thought was, "But what about the females?
Well, I'm not going back because it's all
about the males and not the females."
So the mental health doctor that was treating me,
I did not attend another session and she called me and asked me,
"What was the problem?"
I said, "There are no female Veterans there.
What is going on?"
So she told me about different group session that was outside
of the VA for female Veterans and so I attended one
and there was one other female Veteran other than myself.
That was in 2007.
So now the females are,
even this organization here today that's being represented,
they had an all female workshop and it was a blessing.
It was 31 female Veterans, all different branches.
It made a difference.
It makes a difference.
So I believe that the VA has grown
in getting more aid catering to the female Veterans
because if not, it makes them stay away
and a change is happening.