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I gotta do something about this 'cause this isn't normal.

MAJ Joshua Brandon, US Army 2002 - present, talks about when he knew he needed to get help for PTSD.

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2006 was when I really realized I had PTSD 'cause in the middle

in the deployment, we're in combat and I'm coming back

and I would have shakes, sweats, I couldn't sleep.

At some point, I had stopped caring

about the danger in combat.

Now I wasn't getting reckless, I was still smart about it.

But that initial fear, that healthy fear

that everybody needs to have in combat,

that wasn't there anymore.

That lack of fear and then coming back from that deployment

and having even more severe anger issues, personal issues

and really bad anxiety.

Well, hey, I gotta do something

about this 'cause this isn't normal.

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