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I watched somebody fall apart, and I no longer wanted to live with that person.

Beth Talbott, Wife of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about what it's like to live with someone who has PTSD.

Transcript

I saw someone who was intelligent, articulate, enjoying life

become very depressed, very angry, non-motivated,

and I was very tired of watching the man that I love

become somebody not willing to be engaged in life.

And that was when I just had had the last straw,

and so that's what I mean by interesting.

I watched somebody fall apart.

And I no longer wanted to live with that person.

And that was when I decided that I needed to tell him

that I was ready to walk out the door.

And I told him that he needed to seek help.

And I told him, I said, "I can't help you anymore.

I'm not strong enough, I don't have the tools to help you.

The VA does, we need to get you the help from the VA."

And I said, "Are you willing to go?

We'll go right now, we'll go down to --"

it's called the Jade-Opal Clinic.

And we went down, and I said, "We may have to wait

a few hours to get in to see a psychologist,

and I don't know who we'll see,

but just pray that we see somebody that will help you."

And we went, and fortunately, we saw somebody that was great,

and that started the process.

But he could of said no that day.

But he didn't, he said yes.

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