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In the beginning it was night terrors.

Jessenia Reeves, Wife of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about the signs of PTSD that she saw.

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For him, in the beginning, it was night terrors.

He would bark orders in his sleep.

It got to the point where he was sleepwalking.

When that started happening, I would sleep out on the couch,

put away all the knives and kitchenware that I think

would be sharp because one thing I was told from his doctors,

you never want to wake up a soldier

because they would think of you as the enemy

and defend themselves or their squad,

so that's what I was told, never to wake him up.

The scary part was he was in the garage,

and we had a couch, and he was in sniper position,

writing in logs, and I couldn't do anything

but to sit there and watch.

I called my best friend, our best family friend,

who's like a brother, and, "I don't know what to do,"

but he was just like,

"I'll stay here with him until he wakes up."

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