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I'm distant from the family.

Kevin Cottrell, US Army 1980 - 2008, talks about how his PTSD affected his loved ones.

Transcript

I'm distant from the family.

It's hard to find, I'm numb.

I don't really love the way I used to.

And I need to find that again and define it.

I know that I need to start courting my wife again

like I was back before war, back when we were first going out.

And I need to do it.

I struggle with it.

I don't do it enough.

I don't, I maybe do it one percent out of a 100.

I really know I need to push it to a higher limit and I'm not.

My kids, I have selective hearing,

I guess, you want to say it.

I don't know if I had it much beforehand.

Probably helps I can blame it on the hearing aid.

I now have the hearing aid in, but yeah,

I have selective hearing sometimes.

I can be right there with the conversation and not hear them

and not pay attention or just go, "Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm,"

and not take it in because my mind might be somewhere else

and that really hurts them.

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