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I was having problems grocery store shopping.

Matthew Jensen, US Army, US Marine Corps 2002 - 2012, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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I would say I was having problems grocery store shopping.

A lot of Veterans can't go into Walmart, Target,

don't like the confusion, the crying about their Starbucks

being cold, anything, the crying babies, anything

that can make you really irritated.

So the best invention I thought of is the iPhone,

or an iPod, or a Walkman.

Put it in low, put some soothing music on,

and I just go through and do the grocery shopping on my own.

I can still hear stuff, but barely.

I can still zone on and focus on one matter at a time,

than all the chaos going on in the civilian world around me.

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