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Families suffer a great deal when mom
or dad come home just lost with PTSD.
Absolutely.
My ex-husband, he used to tell me
that his wife never came home, just this zombie in the house
and that would irritate me.
And he'd get emotional and it would just really irritate me.
I was not an emotional person and I started to realize
that it was kind of, I felt like a freak
that I couldn't have emotions at times
when other people were having emotions at things.
And so that's where the isolation, it was easier just
to stay in my own little world.
And so that doesn't help families either.
And then there's always, some
of the escape mechanisms are alcohol or I even got involved
in an online video game on the computer which is so out
of character for my behavior.
Got lost in it and it was like a drug.
It was a way to escape the world.
Lost a lot of time and family is just kind
of on the periphery suffering and probably not as happy
that you're home as they wanted to be 'cause it's hard for them.