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I looked for adrenaline in the wrong places.

Ron Whitcomb, US Army 1968 - 1969, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

Transcript

When I came home I went back to a job that I left with the State

of Connecticut, a great job that I loved and wanted to stay at.

I was on track for a great career as a drug counselor

and it offered me everything except I was suffocating 'cause

I had no adrenaline rush.

And I did, which way too many people, Veterans,

have done is I looked for adrenaline in the wrong places

and I got in trouble with the law and ended

up doing time for that.

I wasn't the kind of kid or young man or warrior

in the military that ever would have gotten

in trouble had it not been for my looking

for that adrenaline rush.

One of the things I ask all of you is,

look for it in other ways because we don't need any more

of us in jails and prisons because we've pushed the limit

or we've driven too fast and killed ourselves

in car accidents or gotten involved in drugs

and had overdoses or become alcoholics and drug addicts.

There are better ways to find some type of an adrenaline rush

but you're never going to get, in my opinion,

the adrenaline rush that you had in the war.

And that's something you have to surrender to also

but there are other things you can do.

Find them.

Please, help yourselves.

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