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Once PTSD was in the house and it was known,
it split the family.
And I can't say that it was the only reason, I mean
relationships are relationships, but it was to the point where
I don't believe my father knew who he was anymore,
and he blew everything up
because he didn't know, really, what to do.
My father, I believe, was always the man who had the answer,
and he didn't have the answer for this.
You know, my parents were people who were both struggling,
struggling badly, and that was the effect on the family.
It might not be how the parents treat you, it's what they
can't offer you at the time that is the real impact.
They loved us, they still love us, they loved us,
but their capacity as parents wasn't there because they weren't
handling things that were going on in their own life.
And I think that was the real impact on kids, on us.
There was never violence, there was never verbal abuse,
none of that ever happened.
But as a teenager, going through those years,
and especially for my brother, they were unavailable
mentally, a lot of the times, and that was the real impact,
especially for my brother.
I avoided it, I stayed at school, and I avoided it.
That's how I dealt with it
because it was too painful to come home.