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| | Pat Bieneman
"PTSD is a crisis of the mind. It is real and it is hell. I came back from Vietnam with it. Finally I admitted I had it in 1998. I went through 6 1/2 years of weekly classes and I still see a shrink once a month. If your loved one has PTSD, without pressure encourage him to seek help through the VA PTSD program. Most VA's have outpatient treatment and some have in-house treatments. The best one is at Coatsville, PA. It is a six week program that deals with the whole person not just his PTSD. Try to find out what triggers his PTSD episodes. Tell him you would like to know what he went through but you don't want the gory details. As him if he would write down some of the situations he had to deal with. For me, the writing was the best thing that I did to help myself. The classes and treatment was next. There is a book titled "Ghost in an Orange Closet". Get it."
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