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Working through the moral injury definitely improved my personal life and relationships.

Eddie Hoffman (US Marine Corps, 2001 – 2010) talks about how treatment helped him feel deserving again.

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Working through the moral injury
definitely improved my

personal life,
my relationship with my wife,

my family.

I was no longer
just focusing on

the self-loathing,
the self-doubt, the hatred.

It was

it almost allowed.

It allowed me to kind of
do more things and

feel like I deserve life again,
that I deserve good things.

Because for so long
I walked around thinking

that all I deserved
was worse than life,

or if something bad
would happen

of course, I deserve it,
you know? And,

you know, through time
I started feeling more and more

like when somebody invites me
to do something,

they actually want to hang out
with me,

that I deserve to be there.

And I might actually do
some of those things.

So I was less isolated,
got out and started fishing

and hunting more again, hanging
out with other people and just,

you know, realizing
that I don't have to, you know,

I don't deserve the worse than
life as much as I think I do.

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