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I have been working with a combat Veteran

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who has been living with PTSD for over 40 years

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without any kind of treatment, really without any awareness that

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what he went through in combat has impacted him in any way.

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And he came in with the idea that he needed help,

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but he didn't really know how.

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He didn't really know how it was impacting his life

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or what was wrong.

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And it's been pretty remarkable.

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In his sessions -- so much of his trauma is carried in his body.

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He was a gunner and spent a lot of time,

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I mean, days and weeks at a time in a tank.

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And as soon as we started the eye movements he began to sob.

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And then he started feeling a lot of pain in his legs

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and was able to make the connection that for 40-plus years

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he has been preparing to propel out of a tank even though

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he hasn't been in a tank in any time during that time period.

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So he was just carrying it in his legs,

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and so much of the trauma was in his body,

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and it just was this incredible shift as he realized

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how much damage he's doing to his body by not

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getting the help he needed, not working through these things.

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I have one lady in mind who came to me after about 10 years

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following a sexually-based trauma in the military.

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And she -- we had to spend a lot of time in,

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kind of, the preparation phase because she,

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her emotions were kind of all over the place

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and she didn't really know what to do with it.

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But once we prepared her for EMDR

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and the processing that's involved in EMDR,

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we processed her in two sessions.

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So by the end of those two processing sessions

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she was doing amazing things.

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She was able to schedule a sleep study that she had put off

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for a very long time because she was

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afraid of the male providers that were there.

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She had started to allow her husband to actually

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sleep in the same bed with her.

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She was actually going to let her teenage daughter

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go out of town with another parent.

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So her relationships got better.

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She got actually closer to her family

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because she started attending family gatherings.

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She even got furniture out of layaway

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that she had had in there for years because she was avoiding

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having to have family gatherings at her home.