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I became this incredibly prickly, insane hostile person.

Tyler Jones, US Marine Corps 2002 - 2006, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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The irritability of just interacting with other people,

I stopped going out with friends, and trying to stay home

or stay in the barracks away from people.

If someone gave me a dirty look, I would be ready to

rock-and-roll and fist-fight, whatever the case was.

Thank God I never acted on it, but I was always

ready for a fight.

It was never being calm, or cool, or collected.

It was always, "Let's go," and, "Get the hell away from me."

"You looked at me funny, I'm going to rip your throat out."

And I became just this incredibly prickly, insane,

hostile person where everything pissed me off, everything.

I did not like being around people, didn't like seeing people,

just the whole thing you could say about me was that

it was, "Leave me the f--- alone

because I don't want to know you, I don't want to see you.

You're in my way," and it really affected how I saw

other people and how I saw, even, myself because

that was not how I was beforehand at all.

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