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I was living in my car.

Valerie Ovalle, US Army 2004 - 2005, talks about when she knew she needed to get help for PTSD.

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The moment I accepted that I had PTSD was

one day my nephew,

I asked him for the password

to the internet or something, it was something silly,

and I don't even know if I said it loud enough

for him to hear it and he just walked on by me,

and I got very angry.

I started yelling at him.

I love my nephews to death.

I've never raised my voice to them.

That day I did and my mom came in

and started telling me to leave them alone.

I don't know if she moved her hands

to tell me to just leave and take a break

and go somewhere else,

but I grabbed her arms

and I basically disrespected my mom.

After that, she was, you know was scared

and she kicked me out of the house.

A month, I was living in my car for about a month.

That's when I started realizing

that maybe I needed to get help.

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