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I'm about to lose the best thing that's ever happened to me, my wife and my daughter.

Joe Duarte, US Army 2002 - 2006, talks about when he knew he needed to get help for PTSD.

Transcript

I flew into Tucson to corner a buddy that was fighting,

and I remember always needing to party and needing to drink,

and it's kind of like self-medicate myself.

And I got belligerent drunk, and I remember

yelling at my wife, telling her I don't love her,

and then going into the middle of the street,

and we had limo outside, and basically telling her

to get out of the limo and to get out of my life

and just, you know, I was incoherent at the time.

And I think a lot of that was a lot of guilt

because I feel like sometimes I don't deserve my wife.

That's when I realized that, yeah,

I need to go, I need to get help because I felt like

I'm about to lose the best that's ever happened to me,

my wife and my daughter, if I don't get help.

And that was kind of the turning point in my life.

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