Transcript
When you get into treatment, they don't expect you
to just talk about all of your issues all at once.
Your first month or so, you're learning new tools,
new ways of thinking that you have never dealt with before.
So what you're doing is practicing those skills.
So once you learn those skills, it's a lot more comfortable
and a lot more easy when you have those tools to deal
with your issues because with those tools, you're learning how
to communicate in a better way and you're learning how to get
at those feelings that had been stuffed down for so long
that you haven't dealt with.
And, I tell you, once you get to those feelings
and you let them loose, it's like, oh, it's a load off.
It's a load off and you realize that when you're done
through treatment and thinking how long you lived with that
on your back, that monkey on your back kind of a thing.
You've been dealing with a lot of issues
and that's what trauma is.
Most of the time it's stuff you haven't dealt with
or stuff you're too numb to deal with.
The treatment is learning how to, learning the tools to deal
with that stuff that you haven't talked about,
that you just put it aside or put it deep down inside
and just forgot about, but you really haven't forgot
about it 'cause every day you live your life
with that on your back.