Overcoming PTSD: A Veteran's Story

He was at home. He went into his closet, took his gun and literally had his gun in his mouth ready to pull the trigger. I was dealing with a veteran who was dealing with some pretty severe post traumatic stress. He tried everything, but nothing had really been very effective for him. So he had been dealing with it for a number of years. He couldn't resolve all the death and destruction and everything he had dealt with from the military. He was actually a leader in the military. He's actually a Green Beret and Green Berets are a very unique branch of the military. Smaller groups. He was very close, close to his team members and lost some of them. He took a lot of blame on that. I should have done it differently. I put my troops into this danger situation. He's a great man. He felt so much pain about the losses for their families as well. That that was really affecting him. And it was that constant visualizing people be killed or die being buried in the funerals. All that stuff kept on looping in his mind and that was overwhelming the system. He said it actually got to the point it was. So he went into his closet, took his gun and literally had his gun in his mouth ready to pull the trigger. Luckily, he heard the door open and there was some coming back from school. He immediately put the gun down and started to cry. And he said, I need to find a solution. He heard about our program and what I do, and I actually went to his home and did it there in his home with him. And he said it was life changing. I love the words that he used. He said, after going through the TIP program, I felt like my toes uncurled because it was that tension. He was so tight and so tense that it felt like they just released.