Transcript
My story of how I got
into treatment is really kind of funny.
Well and I guess when I say funny,
I think any of you Vets can understand what I mean by funny.
We have a little bit of a dark sense
of humor I think all of us share.
And so after I got out of the Navy,
it was four days before 9/11.
So imagine I was sitting on the couch
with my grandma chain smoking and all of a sudden,
the Twin Towers are blowing up.
How would you feel if you were just
out of the military watching the Twin Towers blow
and there's nothing you can do about it 'cause you're not
in the military anymore?
So I was feeling like a real dirtbag at that moment
and so all of this was going on and my Grandma,
a few days later was reading the paper and there was this article
about the VA and they were starting a young women's
psychotherapy group that was specifically
for young women Veterans with PTSD.
And I didn't even know I had VA benefits.
So long story short, my Grandma talked me into going and I think
that was March of '02.
And that was the largest group of women like me
that I've ever sat in.
I think there were 14 or more of us when we started and the whole
like first two sessions, I sat with my knees
up to my chin just rocking.
I didn't say a word.
And that's OK, you know, just to be there, just to go.
You don't have to talk, you know, that's fine.
And I talked when I was ready.