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His body would tense up and he would shake.

Melissa Hansen, Wife of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about the signs of PTSD that she saw.

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For the first couple years that he was home

he had a hard time driving on the roads.

I remember one instance, I was driving.

He had been home, even a year,

he had been home a whole year.

We were driving down the freeway, and a tire blew

on a truck on the freeway, and it made quite a sound.

I'm not a good sound maker, or I'd make the sound,

but the tire blew, and Josh had

quite a little breakdown there in the car.

His body tensed up, and he said, "We need to go home.

I have to get home, you need to take me home right now."

And so I had to take him home,

and there was many instances like that.

We would drive by a garbage bag at the side of the road

and his body would tense up, and he would shake.

"Don't drive by that.

You're driving too close to it, go around it."

We would drive over -- you know how they put the tar

in the roads to seal up cracks -- we would drive over tar

and, "Don't drive over that, we can't do that,

there's a bomb there," is the way he would think.

So just driving around town was extremely difficult for him

because everything he saw had a bomb.

Because in Iraq, that's how it was for him.

They would hide the bombs in the garbage bags

and in the culverts, and anything out of place on the road

was somewhere where a bomb would be.

So, his mind couldn't get past that here for a long time.

And even now, driving down the roads -- and it's been

six years -- he points out where the bombs are hidden.

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