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I pretty much didn't have any friends for quite a few years.

Jeremiah Civil, US Marine Corps 2001 - 2005, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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I actually, I turned to alcohol.

It was a great coverup and so it wasn't quite

as much of an isolation.

It was sort of I guess an isolation

because you can't really have deep friends in that sort

of a fashion and it's really easy to get rid of friends

and it's really easy to push people away, all of which I did,

so that could be isolation.

Later on it turned more into that.

The drinking and the partying, it only lasts

so long before it becomes serious issues

and that's what it did for me.

It started causing serious life issues.

Constantly losing jobs and all sorts of stuff,

not being able to keep friends.

And so at that point that's when I did start to isolate

and I pretty much lost all my friends.

I ended up getting married which was a very,

very tumultuous marriage but other than that,

other than my wife, I pretty much didn't have any friends

for quite a few years.

Didn't want to go out to crowded events,

didn't want to have too much of a social life

for the same reason I was talking about before.

I don't want to have to try and explain it to people

and I didn't want to have to go

over my experiences every single time to try

and let somebody know and so it was much easier

to just not to have friends.

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