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So let me talk for a second about what the difference is
between you're seeing a psychologist
or you're seeing a psychiatrist.
There's a lot of overlap in what we do.
We both know how to treat PTSD.
It's just that in the VA system,
the tools that we use to help you are a little bit different
between the psychologists and the psychiatrists.
In most VA settings, the psychologists will be the ones
who are doing individual and group therapy, and like I said,
there may be different types of therapy
with different techniques, depending on your symptoms.
The psychiatrists are usually the folks who are going
to prescribe medication to you that will help
with the disordered chemistry that you're dealing with
as a result of your trauma experience.
So we prescribe medications, mostly,
although we also know how to do therapy.
And the psychologists do the therapy in the VA system,
but they are also usually very knowledgeable about medications
because we've been working together for so long.