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I just...buried and avoided it.

Ginger Mercer, US Army 1992 - 1994, talks about how she knew she had PTSD.

Transcript

I got out in 1994, and I really started seeking help in 2007.

So there was a long time in-between where I just

lived, and coped, and buried, and avoided it

to the point where once it started coming to the surface,

I felt like I couldn't function anymore.

And it was affecting my family and my friends.

And at that point, I really needed to step forward

and seek help, which was very, very hard.

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