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The biggest challenge is for us not to feed off of each other.

Lee Norris, Husband of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about what it's like to live with someone who has PTSD.

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The hardest part of living with someone with PTSD

is understanding that things they do and say are the PTSD

and not the real person that they really are.

And once you can come to some understanding

and grasp that concept, things do get a lot easier after that,

but it's still tough every day to remind myself

that I know her anxiety is through the roof,

and this is not her zone, and this is this.

And it's not exactly mine either, so I try to be as conscious

as I can as to not trigger her any more than she already is

and not to let my emotions that I have going on

feed back and forth from her.

That's the biggest challenge, is for us

not to feed off of each other.

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