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[I thought] I could handle it on my own.

Leah Parady, US Air Force 1993 - 2011, talks about why she didn't ask for help with her PTSD right away.

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I think what kept me from asking for help

is thinking I could handle it on my own,

and that I wasn't really sure what was going on.

I think it takes some perspective

to realize how bad things are getting

and how closed in your world is getting.

And it's a slow progression.

So it's like anything else.

You don't really see it while it's happening,

but then all of a sudden you realize,

"Oh, wait a minute. You know, I'm no longer going to

the grocery store.

I can't wrap my head around recipes.

I don't know how to interact with people.

I'm not going out with friends."

My world has just gotten really slow,

or really small, and it even got to the point

where transitioning from one point to another point

was really difficult, so getting out of the house

in the morning and getting to work

was a really difficult transition.

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