Transcript
The biggest thing that you can do to help your spouse
along the road with PTSD is not give up.
No matter how hard it gets, no matter how depressing,
no matter how stressful, don't give up
because they didn't give up when they were in Iraq.
They came home in one piece.
So you need to give them that respect, that you're not
just going to give up just because things get hard.
Being in a war situation, Afghanistan, you know,
any of the other wars that anybody would have PTSD with,
they didn't give up.
They didn't really want to go over there, they were ordered.
And it's more or less a spousal love
that you stick it through no matter what.
And I think that right there has helped me the most,
is to learn, no matter how hard it gets,
it's not that he wants to be mean to me,
it's not that he wants to be verbal
and the yelling and the screaming, it's part of the PTSD.
It comes with the PTSD.
And if you don't realize, that's part of the PTSD,
and he's not just being mean or she's just being mean.
You can look past it.