Transcript
I met my second wife, my
wife I have now, in 2001.
She told me it sounded like I had PTSD.
And I told her, if you
want me to be with you,
you better not never say that to me again.
Because the stigma that I knew of PTSD,
they didn't call it that.
They called it shell shock.
And I guess when a lot of
people were coming back
from Vietnam in the black community,
they put that label on them.
And if you were shell
shocked, you were ostracized
and alienated and nobody
wanted to deal with you.
So when she said PTSD,
all I could think about was shell shock.
And I was never, I was not
gonna be shell shocked.
So I stayed in denial.
I met this beautiful woman, I was happy.
And the aggression continued,
the avoidance continued.
And then in 2010, after she
talked to me from 2001 to 2010,
I decided that in 2010 I was gonna go see
if what she was saying had any merit.
I knew something was wrong,
but I didn't know what it was.
And I did not wanna say that it was PTSD.
I believe I was in denial.