Seth Moulton discloses PTSD, unveils military mental health proposal

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Source: Politico

Seth Moulton discloses PTSD, unveils military mental health proposal

The Democratic presidential candidate sought treatment after his combat deployments during the Iraq War.

By ALEX THOMPSON 05/28/2019 05:54 PM EDT

Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine veteran who is running for president, will introduce a plan Tuesday evening to expand military mental health services and will disclose that he sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder after his combat deployments during the Iraq War.

“I had some particular experiences or regrets from the war that I just thought about every day, and occasionally I’d have bad dreams or wake up in a cold sweat,” the Massachusetts Democrat told POLITICO in an interview ahead of a Tuesday night event in Massachusetts that will begin a Veterans Mental Health Tour in early-primary states. “But because these experiences weren’t debilitating — I didn’t feel suicidal or completely withdrawn, and I was doing fine in school — it took me a while to appreciate that I was dealing with post-traumatic stress and I was dealing with an experience that a lot of other veterans have.”

Moulton arrived home in 2008 and sought counseling in 2009, trying a few therapists before finding one he connected with and met with weekly.

“I got to the point where these experiences weren’t haunting me every day,” he said. “They’ll always be there and there will always be regrets that I have, but I got to a point where I could deal with them and manage them. It’s been a few years now since I’ve woken up in a cold sweat in bed from a bad dream or felt so withdrawn from my friends or whatever that I would just go home and go to bed because I miss being overseas with the Marines.”

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/28/seth-moulton-ptsd-mental-health-1345848

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1. #FiveWhiteMen needs more than a mental health plan,

including for himself.

No excuses for trying to take our speaker out with absolutely no qualified candidate available to replace her. If this overly ambitious and under-principled blue dog wants to work for the Republicans he should run as a Republican.

And no excuses for, when he failed, snatching at the misogynistic "victory" of making the one woman among 12 top leaders in the two parties agree to be term-limited.

Permanently self-disqualified.

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