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from going into suicidal thoughts. This sort of therapy needs to be available to all service members.
I have participated in many treatment plans and they mostly keep me stable. My responsibility is just to assure follow-up appointments. I am grateful that therapy for PTSD and deployment related issues is available. I just wish there was less stigma attached to it and more understanding by the general public. I don't see as much stigma anymore, but I still see it. It's still out there. I am very careful about who I share things with, outside of the medical community. Because a lot of their responses are "just get over it"... things like that. They really just don't understand.
What I have found is that, when I stop therapy, I slowly start isolating again...becoming more introverted. Through therapy it's almost like, even going every two weeks, it's almost like accountability. It is like making sure I use the skills I have learned so that I can live somewhat of a normal life.
I injured my back and knees in Basic Training and again in Advanced Individual Training (AIT). We were doing a road march on one of them and that's when I injured my back and I injured my knee running. I did it multiple times in the Army, I kept injuring my knee. I have a lot of trouble with it now. I have arthritis in my knee. It gives out on me sometimes. I also have tendinitis...I messed up all of my tendons. They are really never going to be back the way they used to be. I injured all of the muscles in my lower back, so there's only a certain extent to which I could strengthen them before I re-injure them. I have a slight bulge on my discs and I
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