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When you doubt civilian therapists can understand military experience

My wife wants to go to marriage counseling but I cannot imagine telling a civilian therapist about the things that changed me overseas and expect them to understand.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The specificity of military trauma can feel so foreign to civilian experience that seeking help feels like speaking an untranslatable language.

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