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If you have a family, it becomes a family issue and family members start taking it on.

Robert Murphy, US Army 1966 - 1969, talks about how his PTSD affected his loved ones.

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Need to understand that whether it's alcoholism or PTSD,

if you have a family, it becomes a family issue

and family members start taking it on.

Is that the kind of issues that you want for your kids?

I didn't want that.

Today my kids are fairly well adjusted.

They haven't forgot the turmoil they've been through

and they went through a lot.

We talk about it.

There was a time in my life my children didn't talk to me,

had nothing to do with me.

Today, I have a good relationship with all of them.

Today, I'm Grandpa to their children.

Today, they call me long distance

and put the grandkids on the phone.

That's a far cry from where I was 25 years ago.

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