Daniela: Accepting Therapy was hard
From the Brink of Suicide Back To Life
Daniela’s recovery started only when she became suicidal. She could not deal with the verbal abuse and the rape in the Marine Corps in Mississippi. “I started to give up. My husband returned from his deployment and didn’t know who I was anymore. My drinking was heavy. I didn’t care. I was on all this medication. He told me, you are better than this. I started to think I have some support,” she remembers.
Daniela rejected the therapy first saying “only crazy people go to therapy”. But she changed her mind and embarked on a journey to find the person that could make her talk again and help the healing. She now praises the therapy she has received from the therapists at VA, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Her husband also received therapy when they were near divorce. The message he received was that Daniela would heal.
“The therapist teaches you coping skills, when you have your anxiety attacks. When you have a flashback, you will most likely want to run away and isolate. She teaches you to ground yourself, breath and remind yourself that you are here and not back in the past. You can change,” Daniela says.
Now she has joined a therapy group with other females. She believes she can learn from other women’s histories and help others with her story.
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