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I was hurting the people around me.

Michelle Fisher, US Air Force 2000 - 2011, talks about how her PTSD affected her loved ones.

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I felt very guilty because I was hurting the people around me.

My partner at the time, we were together

before I left for Iraq, and when I came back

she said I was a ghost of the person who I used to be.

And I acted differently.

I got violent.

I'd punch holes in the wall.

I would break things.

And we were together for a very long time,

but it didn't end up working out,

and I feel like it was all my fault because of who I became.

And when I realized that was my PTSD,

it was easy to kind of forgive myself and move on.

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