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He legitimately probably saved my life

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with ARP getting into the SRU .

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My experience getting into the social

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recovery unit was induced by traumatic

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brain injury um from Syria which

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later began to induce a PTSD . My

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best friend , um , at the soldier

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recovery unit was now a staff sergeant

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retired John Barna . I'm I'm , I'm

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very , very thankful for him . Getting

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me in the SRU and kind of grounding me

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to a point where it was like . You're

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the only person I can trust right now .

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I finally took into what my roommate

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John was saying . And jumped in an ARP

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and went headfirst into it . And you

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know , fell in love with the sports

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that I've been doing and now here we

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are . ARCP has definitely made me a lot

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more resilient than I thought I was

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going to be . A lot of my thanks I've

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got to go to the R2 program with the

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mental performance , um , they've

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really helped me get into and out of my

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head , um , but also being able to get

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into the right mindset of , you know ,

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attacking , you know , this , um ,

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whatever event I'm going towards or

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just waking up and putting myself in a

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good mood or , you know , having pain

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in my body and and being able to flush

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all that pain out , going and seeing ,

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you know , other . Soldiers in the

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recovery unit who are struggling with

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major injuries that are more physical

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and then me telling myself every

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morning you know I've got I I can do

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this you know I can be an inspiration

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to somebody else by doing these things

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as well .