Real Warriors Program Helps Those With PTSD
Real Warriors Program Helps Those With PTSD
Soldier who suffered from PTSD now helping others cope with the disorder.
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" Army major Jeff Paul always dreamed of becoming a soldier. His first deployment to Iraq in 2003 with everything he imagined."
" Or are rounding up bad people we were doing raids. We were helping the population."
" Two years into the war things change. He's seen death before it was prepare for it but in 2005 he lost two men under."
" His command had a very difficult time. Recovered from that and."
" When he walked in the door. I could tell. In his eyes that he was not the same person."
" Married twenty years major hall's wife -- says she barely recognized her husband when he came home one that he could be happy go lucky -- And the next man at his eyes would go completely black and he would just be angry rage sadness and despair he exposed his post traumatic stress demons through self portraits and took."
" Come across is broken vessel is death to you in in the combat arms. Who wants to follow. The officer who's gone crazy."
" Turns out many did encouraged him when he finally spoke up. He's been heavily involved in a campaign called real -- that works to reduce stigma attached to mental illnesses and find help for soldiers and none."
" People that it actually helps me -- is subordinate to me. -- forcing these -- got you got you back here going to be fine we're not gonna let you fail."
" That attitude has always been clear when there over there but increasingly -- senior leadership of the military is reaching out to its troops to tell them. They don't have to suffer alone when they get. Soldiers -- soldiers is what we have to do Erika Edwards NBC news."
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