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I feel really badly for my wife.

Tyler Jones, US Marine Corps 2002 - 2006, talks about how his PTSD affected his loved ones.

Transcript

I feel guilty that my wife has to go through it with me

because I know she wants to be able to do something

for me when I'm having really, really bad days

or even bad weeks, and there's nothing that she can do,

there's no magic wand for this.

And that's what drives me insane about it is that

I wish there was something that could be done, that there was

a way that she wouldn't have to feel so powerless, but I also

feel very responsible that it's my fault this happened

and that there's nothing that I can really do to fix it.

No matter what I try to do, it's still there, even though

I don't let this dictate my life and let PTSD define me,

it's still a very big part of my life that I try to

integrate into my life and find a way to work with it

rather than try to fight against it.

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