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You have to keep going.

Valerie Ovalle (US Army, 2004 - 2005) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

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Basically, what you have to do is

talk about your trauma.

And then, like, for example,

not being able to go to a crowded Walmart.

You would have to go and be at the Walmart

for as long as you can, and then leave,

and then go back and then see if you can stay longer, and,

or, you know,

sit by the door with your back turned,

or a window with your back turned.

So, it's just a repetitive thing

that you have to keep going in order,

until you feel comfortable.

Now I can go into a HEB, or a grocery store,

or a Walmart and have a woman behind me

with from head to toe covered besides her eyes,

and I don't freak out.

I don't, you know, jump, and look at her weird,

or anything like that, you know.

I can turn around and see her

and tell her good afternoon, or hello,

and not feel

my heart racing one bit.

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