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It actually poured over
into my personal life
once I became a civilian.
So I struggled
when it came to my transition
out of the military,
when it came to employment
and either identifying
or telling my employer
that I was in the military
and things like that.
I struggled when it came to my
relationship with my first wife.
That led to having a divorce.
I was on different
types of medication,
just trying to suppress
what I'm dealing with,
what I'm feeling with.
And that led me to the brink
of almost committing suicide
and trying to take my life.
When I was living in Tampa,
Florida,
and going through
some of these things
and bottling
some of these emotions
really put me
into a very isolated place
where I didn't want to deal with
anybody
and I didn't
love myself anymore,
didn't see the value
in being alive anymore,
and thinking that I would be
better off dead in regards
to getting getting out of here
and not being here anymore
because of so many things
that I was dealing
with and bottling on the inside.