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I didn't really have a chance to experience a childhood.

Olivia Jefferson (daughter of a Veteran with PTSD) talks about what it's like to live with someone who has PTSD.

Transcript

I didn't really have a chance to experience a childhood

just because of the different things that I had to do

to be involved with my father or pertaining to him.

There were certain things that I had to do,

be there for him, and sometimes I gave up on

going to a friend's house or whatever

just in the event, just not knowing if he's going to need me

or not, not knowing if, you know, he's going to go into

one of his moods where it's three o'clock in the morning

and he just can't sleep, he's just in the living room,

in the dark, just sitting there.

You never know when he's going to have one of his incidents,

so you just kind of, you just kind of got to be on call.

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