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Veteran video testimonials shared in NNLM webinar urge treatment-seeking
Summary
A short AboutFace video played during the webinar featured veterans describing triggers, nightmares, hypervigilance and social withdrawal; speakers encouraged others to seek care and emphasized that treatment can change lives.
Dr. Mateo played a short AboutFace video that included unscripted veteran accounts of living with PTSD. Veterans described key symptom triggers such as helicopters and certain smells, frequent nightmares, hypervigilance (keeping a loaded gun and survival knife nearby), and social withdrawal. "I used to disappear on weekends and just drive," one speaker said, describing coping behavior that later helped him manage symptoms.
Several speakers delivered concise encouragements to seek care: "Treatment works," "Walk through those doors," and "It's the best and bravest thing you could ever do." Dr. Mateo said AboutFace intentionally features veterans from multiple eras and service branches to show that recovery is possible and to normalize treatment-seeking.
