Sebastian Junger
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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But the reason I survived it all was that I'm a fit, athletic person.
And so I gave the doctor something to work with.
It also meant that I recovered quite quickly.
So instead of three weeks in the ICU, I was five days.
And then, boom, I'm out of there, right?
And so I came home.
And it's not the kind of party you would expect, right?
Like I came home and I was like, woohoo, I'm alive.
I made it, blah, blah, blah.
It's like, oh, my God, I almost died on a totally ordinary day.
And it could happen again.
This also could be the day that I die.
Maybe I have another aneurysm.
Like, we don't know.
And I completely freaked myself out.
It was a classic post-trauma, like, anxiety, panic reaction.
Like, it was all very classic.
It was way worse than combat.