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I had lost all joy in my life.

Diana Franz, US Army, 1981 - 1984, talks about how she knew she had PTSD.

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I was isolating myself
a lot socially.

At work I was carrying
a lot of anger.

I would

have bad dreams,

flashbacks of my
traumatic incident.

At night I'd probably
be lucky to get

four to five hours of
sleep a night

and that was for decades.

It was,

there, there,

one thing that was really

of note to me was that I
had lost all joy

in my life.

I would get up and
go to work.

I had a son that I
raised on my own.

I wasn't

emotionally-bonded
to the extent

that you would think a
mother should be.

And that hurt me a lot.

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