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I used to sweat a lot.

Albert M. Perna, US Army 1942 - 1945, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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I used to sweat a lot, I used to wave my arms.

I had to be very careful in bed

because I didn't want to hurt my wife.

And sometimes I would get the sheets so wet

my wife would wake up in the middle of the night and say,

"Al, you're soaking wet."

And so I used to sleep on the floor next to her.

I didn't know anything about my sickness

or anything like that, I just took it for granted it was,

you know, some of the things I went through in the war.

But I didn't understand what it was about.

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