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I'm still trying to kind of be the peacemaker.

Olivia Jefferson (daughter of a Veteran with PTSD) talks about what it's like to live with someone who has PTSD.

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He would always feel, I guess,

someone was out to get him, so to speak.

He would just be paranoid.

We'd go to restaurants and he would talk

to the waiters and the waitresses just any kind of way

just because he felt like he could.

And I think that that had a lot to do with the PTSD

just because I know, deep down inside,

that's really not what type of person he is.

He's very humble, and he's kindhearted.

So to see this side of him, it was like

speaking a foreign language to me.

It was something that I'd never seen before.

And I don't know, I just tried to embrace it,

not be judgmental, but be there for him.

But at the same time, not pressure him,

but still let him know that I am here for you to talk,

but it was kind of hard because at the same time,

I'm only 13, 14, I just got in trouble at school,

so there's still friction there between the two of us,

but I'm still trying to kind of be the peacemaker.

So arguments were a lot harder.

They were very difficult to try to diffuse, but

I mean, I got through it, I guess.

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