Transcript
I feel like I need to be prepared for everything.
I don't like getting caught, I guess,
with my pants down so to say.
Whenever I see bad weather
on the radar I just have this instinct to get everything ready
to go just so I'm not caught off guard.
I go through my house at night
and I'd make sure all the doors are locked.
I used to sleep with a gun under my pillow just
because I spent nine months of my life over in Iraq sleeping
with my M16 ready to fire and when I came home I just felt
like I needed that to be safe.
It was kind of my safety blanket and I needed to have something
within reach to protect myself.
I didn't realize at first
that that's really not what you're supposed to do
but after I went through with the VA and got help I kind
of realized that I could kind of let my guard down on some stuff
and kind of chill out a little bit.