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I just feel like I constantly need [to be] protected.

Laura Hendrixon, US Marine Corps 2003 - 2007, talks about how she knew she had PTSD.

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I'm married now, but I still, it's like I just want him

next to me all the time, like I just feel like I constantly

need protected and that something is going to happen to me.

Even if it's driving, I think, "Oh my gosh, I don't want to

go to the store, like, I could be in a car accident or..."

and I make him drive me.

And it does, it gets tiresome for him, for sure,

but he's really supportive and helps me with it.

And the little baby steps of, you know, since I did treatment,

I can sleep without the light on, and it was a huge

accomplishment, which doesn't seem huge to other people.

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