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I really felt like I brought everything home.

Rick Collier, US Marine Corps 2002 - 2006, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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Really the first aspect was just the hypervigilance

and the anger in-country.

Coming home, that's when the other emotions start to come

out because you're not really in a situation

where you've got to force them back.

So that's when the sadness, the depression,

a lot of empathy is really accessed

for what went on over there.

Some of the signs for me were: I didn't sleep too much,

I didn't want to be around people, traffic, noise.

I couldn't trust anybody and I really felt

like I brought everything home.

It was just an unsafe environment at home regardless

of being surrounded by my comrades, my family, my friends.

You're just on the edge the whole time, so.

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