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You realize the guy sitting there next to you has been through the same crap you went through.

Craig Stu Shipley (US Marine Corps, 1964 - 1968) talks about what PTSD treatment was like.

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For some Vietnam Vets, it helps to get it out of the closet.

For other Vietnam Vets like myself, it did not help to talk

about these experiences, it made it worse.

So there's a real fine line

about how you approach getting help for PTSD.

For me, it was a very personal, personal thing

as I'm sure it is for every Vet.

Baby steps is the way to go.

One step at a time.

The help is there.

You will sit down in counsel.

For me, the group therapy counsel where I was sitting

in a room with eight or nine other Vets telling our war

stories made it worse.

I did better one on one.

I did much better one on one.

And I found myself sharing my experiences later on with Vets

in groups because of the one on one counseling I had.

So for every man, it's a little different.

Sometimes the group counseling

in the PTSD clinics work very well because you're able

to get this out and you realize the guy sitting there next

to you has been through the same crap you went through.

This man understands it.

He smelled it, tasted it and lived it.

For me, I didn't want to hear the other men's stories

of horror.

I got my own.

I was wrestling with my own, didn't want the rest of it.

So the approach is, take baby steps but get your butt up there

and get some help and find some peace.

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