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Special dogs help soldier deal with PTSD

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    Conquering fear with man's best friend

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Carl.

K rebels has PT SD for two decades she served her country and the united states air force.

And suffered in silence.

Well -- -- -- and around crowds of people act out very anxious to locate PT SD is it from a combat related incident her symptoms are shared by thousands of veterans across the country.

The veterans administration says 800000.

Returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Have been diagnosed with PT SD.

Less than half won't get help.

-- sustained and that king McNeil.

-- -- carry it out you know and thinking and feeling.

Embarrass.

Crippled by her own fears -- retired military and eventually started guarantee full.

But it was a little dogs that finally helped her start feeling I mean that way -- that apple -- vaccine is someone that I won it.

Reiki a terrier mix as a service dogs trained to assist soldiers -- -- who have PT SD.

When I get anxious.

She comes over and let.

To let me pet hair behind for he'll put their hand under my arm.

-- journey to -- welcoming arms actually thinking and eighty miles away and then unlikely place -- People I'd -- happy thinking you can -- -- sky and that.

Forty inmates at the Green River correctional facility and central city its okay didn't -- him.

Trained dogs considered un adopt double isolated for you organization.

To be -- -- best friend.

Every -- wake and I get to do this it's.

Backpack a head -- good match for anything more car like this it's been it's been -- real life changing experience for me.

Danny -- is serving a life sentence for murder.

However he no longer focuses on time spent behind bars right now his focus is on Jake this -- Every eight to twelve weeks these inmates get a new crop of dogs.

They'll train them.

Care for them love them as their own until the dogs are matched with a PT SD soldier autistic child.

Or someone else with special needs does like -- here sure learned a lot through this program but -- -- the inmates things like discipline responsibility.

And patients rice says he wonders how differently his life -- it turned out -- he'd -- twenty years ago adolescents these dogs have taught him.

You know one day.

I'm -- part of giving that to somebody else.

-- -- You what -- I don't have -- It's a second chance for every one.

-- -- An excellent in -- has now has a companion to help her conquer this fear that is held her prisoner for so long.

Cindy Carter fox seventeen news.

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