Transcript
I didn't actually admit
that I had PTSD.
I came home from Iraq
and didn't think
I had a problem at all.
I thought I was fine.
I thought,
I can just jump back into life
and everything's
going to be okay.
That didn't work at all.
I tried going back to college.
That didn't work.
I had so many different
jobs, it was ridiculous.
I couldn't maintain a job.
I couldn't maintain
a relationship.
Well, I could maintain
one relationship.
And I was with substances
because that,
since I started at 14,
it was really the isolation,
substance abuse,
and kind of cutting off
from the world
was the only coping
mechanisms I had at the time.
So that's what I turned to.
Published At