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It was harder...around the time where I started trying to find myself.

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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It was harder, like, when I got to middle school,

dealing with the fact that my father had PTSD

just because that was around the time

where I started trying to find myself

at the same time as having to deal with my father's issues.

There were certain things that I knew that I couldn't say

or that I couldn't do just because I know that it probably

would trigger something that would just start an argument.

That's pretty much what my teenage years were about.

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