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I just segregate myself from the rest of the world, even my own family.

Damien Holmes, US Army, US Marine Corps 1993 - 2005, talks about how his PTSD affected his loved ones.

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I get withdrawn, like, I just segregate myself from the rest

of the world, even my own family.

I sit in my room playing the Xbox.

It got to a point to where I would play on the Xbox

from six o'clock in the morning to six o'clock in the morning.

I'll come out to use the bathroom.

I'll come out to eat

or sometimes eat while I'm playing a video game,

smoking a cigarette.

I didn't care about what's going outside my bedroom door.

That got really bad because I started missing out on a lot

of things with the family.

I didn't want to do the, you know,

this week we're having a birthday

but we're celebrating everybody's birthday

at one time, and then the following day,

we're doing something with the family again.

That's too much for me.

So I said, forget it, I'm shutting myself

up in my little hole and that's it, I'm good.

Let me come out when I want to come out, but sometimes,

that would get too long.

I'll be in there weeks on end.

My wife will tell you that.

'Cause being segregated is,

you miss out on a lot, miss out on a lot.

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