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I believe in CPT because I've seen it work.

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The transformation from the beginning of treatment

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to the end is amazing.

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I've worked with many Veterans who've been able to

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have relationships that they weren't able to have before,

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and able to connect, and go out and enjoy going to dinner,

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or enjoy going shopping, and just be able to

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do the things that they felt they couldn't do before.

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So it's an empowering therapy that helps us see

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that we can be the best agent for change in our life.

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In the case of individuals I've worked with,

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they start out with beliefs that they have

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about themselves related to the trauma,

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that they're damaged or they can't get better.

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And yet, as they explore the thoughts that are keeping them

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stuck in some of the emotions and some of the

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ways of feeling and behaving, they see that they, too,

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have that power behind the thought.

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And beginning to see the evidence that supports

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that they're not damaged, that they can heal,

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that they are competent.

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Looking at the facts rather than just

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the habitual beliefs that they've developed

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because they've rehearsed it, and rehearsed it, and rehearsed it,

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that something's wrong with them when in fact it's not.

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Many of the people that I've worked with have seen

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that things get easier in their day-to-day life.

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They feel less anxious and they feel less depressed,

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so they're able to leave the house more.

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They're able to go and do things

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that they want to do in their day-to-day life

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because they have more balanced thinking

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that doesn't keep them in the house,

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doesn't keep them from opening up or having friends.

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There is a shift from what you can't do, what's not safe.

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"I can't trust."

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"If I don't have 100 percent control, I have no control."

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It shifts to a more balanced belief,

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that there are places in life that are safe.

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And when we have that belief

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we get to function in life in a different way.

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That some people can be trusted.

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And so it begins to open up relationships and being willing

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to have a little bit of vulnerability to grow relationships.

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When you don't believe you have to have 100 percent control

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or you have no control, it opens up one's ability

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to go out and do things in life

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when we can't always control everything.

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It's just a fuller, richer life as a result of these changes

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in just basically the way we think.