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Scenario

How to navigate group support when veterans have different trauma responses

Three of us from the same unit started meeting monthly to check in after we all got back but one person keeps minimizing their struggles while another overshares in ways that leave the rest of us feeling flooded. I want to keep showing up for my brothers but I'm not sure our informal approach is actually helping anyone heal.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A support group is struggling with the tension between individual coping styles and collective healing.

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Patan
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“Where Are You with PTSD and trauma?”

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