I avoided it by self-medication.

The PTSD will hit you hardest when you retire or you're

out of work because you don't have that,

you're not occupied all the time.

You get too much time to think

and it starts crashing on you really hard.

So it's bad enough when you're active

and you're working all the time

but once you're not working it's horrendously bad.

So how did I avoid it?

I avoided it by working all the time.

I avoided it by self-medication they call it, drinking, drugs,

whatever, anything to numb you up.

No relationships.

I had at that time no respect for authority so if I was

on a job and I didn't like it or somebody says something

to me I didn't like, I just walked off.

I'd go find another one.

I didn't care.

Actually I didn't really care about lot actually.