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I didn't have any friends.

Vince Bryant, US Marine Corps 2001 - 2009, talks about how his PTSD affected his loved ones.

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What happened was,

people started leaving from around me,

they stopped trying to associate with me.

I'm like, I mean, what's the big problem?

I mean, it...

which kinda, you know,

attributed to probably the isolation.

Not at their leaving, not...

this is another reason for me to isolate in my room.

Because I don't have a reason to go out.

I don't have any friends, I had run everybody off.

My family, they're tip-toeing,

before they say anything to me.

They're watching what they say,

unlike how they were proud of me,

going into combat.

It made me feel worthless,

to be honest with you, it really made me feel worthless.

Here I am,

the ideal parent,

the ideal example.

And now I can't reach out

to my children based upon

whatever I experienced, let me just put it that way.

And another thing, too,

my children were all I have,

at that point, everybody else was already gone.

Leave him alone.

But my children was like my last

bit of love,

my last little bit of hope that I had.

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