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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.