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I realized I was completely alone...it was very frightening.

Steven D. Wiegert, US Marine Corps 1966 - 1968, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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Anger and that male aggressiveness and stuff

has always been a part of my life, and I used that

to keep people away from me.

It was a form of avoidance so I didn't have to make

that emotional commitment with somebody, and it worked.

It worked so well that I got to one point in my life

when I realized I was completely alone.

And the thought did come to me at that time

that I had been striving to keep people away from me,

to leave me alone, but then the realization when that

actually had happened, when I found myself all alone,

it was very frightening.

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