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I was checking off every one of those boxes and I'm like, well, that's that's me.

Learn more about PTSD from Susan Allen (US Air Force, 1990-1993, 1996-2013) and other Veterans who’ve been there: http://www.ptsd.va.gov/AboutFace

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I was a support person
my whole military career.

I wasn't deployed anywhere.

I wasn't, you know, in a battle zone.

I didn't have to deal with those things.

Like I saw, you know,
people I worked with,

family that went through it.

I saw that in them.

And I never equated to the stuff

that I went through with the harassment,

the verbal abuse, the MST, those things.

I didn't equate that to
PTSD because in my mind,

I always thought that people
that went actually to battle,

that went into a war zone.

And I knew I had never been there.

But it wasn't until I
realized what the symptoms

were for PTSD and I was checking off

every one of those boxes

and I'm like, well, that's me.

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