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I pushed everyone away...I'm sorry.

Jennifer S. Norris, US Air Force 1996 - 2010, talks about how her PTSD affected her loved ones.

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I pushed everyone away.

And they didn't necessarily know why, but I'm sorry.

I'm sorry for the outbursts.

I'm sorry for pushing you away and not letting you hug me.

I didn't know, I didn't know how badly

the PTSD had impacted me.

So, I feel really bad for what I've done to my family.

I've cut them off.

I never told them what happened.

I just, I turned to drinking, and they got hurt, too.

That's not what I wanted.

As a result of me hiding things from not only myself,

I hid them from my family, too, and caused some damage there

that I wish I could take back.

You know, now I'd like to say to them,

"Now do you see why I acted like that?

Doesn't it make sense now?"

But back then I couldn't do that.

I was in the middle of it.

All they were trying to do was hug me,

and I couldn't even do that.

And we went from, I was like, we were a real huggy family.

So, for them to see me go from General Hug Me All the Time

because she's huggy to "Don't touch me,"

that was, they took it personally, I think.

And it wasn't about them, and I feel bad for that.

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