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If you're symptomatic, I know you're having problems at home and you don't have to have them.

Mary Martin, US Air Force 1981 - 2005, shares her advice for others who may be concerned about PTSD.

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Even though you might not feel like you are that deserving,

that there are just too many people who are wounded

physically, that your symptoms are not serious enough

to warrant the government's spending this kind of

money and time on you, I would simply say

think about what you're going through.

I cannot believe there is anybody out there with PTSD

who does not have problems at home.

If you're symptomatic, I know you're having problems at home,

and you don't have to have them.

Go try it out.

If you were still in the military

somebody could order you to treatment.

Now you're a Veteran, nobody can order you to treatment.

It's sort of sad in a way because then it takes us

off the hook for being responsible.

But I would just say, if you have PTSD

or any possibility that you have it, go find out.

And if you do, take the bull by the horns.

You've got the right stuff

or you wouldn't have been in the service.

Just go do it.

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