Not to get down a huge rabbit hole and pivot off into political discussion, but I am curious,

what is your take on that versus, say, the way we're set up here?

I think personally, it's amazing. It's fantastic when it runs right. However, our government

have significantly neglected this for a few decades now.

To the point where it's ridiculous, we've got people in hospital corridors for days on end.

We're like waiting for heart operations and things, like serious stuff.

And it's just not here.

Our government is letting us down.

It is not a good place, not a good place to be right now.

Yeah. Well, I mean, it's no picnic here either. It seems like they both suck in different ways. We'll come back to that.

So you check in at that time, obviously, it was significant or run well enough to where did you enter into another psych or kind of

inpatient kind of thing?

Yeah, so I ended up getting weekly appointments then with a therapist.

So he was a civilian therapist, which already made a huge difference to me.

So someone being in uniform and speaking in a military tone of voice would set me off.

I couldn't handle being spoken to like a child.

I wasn't being, but that's how I felt by someone who hadn't experienced the things that I'd experienced.

I'd have to explain little details of what a firefight was like, for instance.

You know, it just made it extremely difficult to get through a session without becoming angry.

So doing it to a civilian, in a civilian setting, in civilian clothes, it brought brought down this wall that had sort of built up

and he got straight into the good stuff so i needed i needed to learn how to calm down um

after like a flashback or a panic attack or something whereas i wasn't being taught that through the military sort of psych teams.

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