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I didn't like anybody behind me...

Richard Sell, US Air Force 1958 - 1967, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

Transcript

I realized something that I had been doing for years,

I didn't like anybody behind me.

I didn't trust anybody behind me.

I always had to be in the back row or not at all.

My wife got us nice tickets to one of the stage shows

in New York, front row, I couldn't sit there.

She sat there by herself with an empty seat,

and I had to go to the back because I was just too nervous.

I was having anxiety attacks,

and that's one of the symptoms of

PTSD, is anxiety attacks and not trusting anybody behind you.

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