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I was a heavy drinker

 

Learn more about PTSD from Marlene Diaz and other Veterans who’ve been there: http://www.ptsd.va.gov/AboutFace

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So I think my first
inclination that I had

post-traumatic stress disorder
was when I had came home.

I was a, I was an alcoholic.

I'm just gonna call it.

I'm not even gonna try to sugarcoat that.

I was a heavy drinker,

and what I didn't know
then was that I was just

trying to suppress all these
different emotions that I had,

all these crazy experiences

and all these tears
that had happened to me

during my military experience
had led me to this condition.

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