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It wasn't until my wife... realized my mood swings.

Joe Duarte, US Army 2002 - 2006, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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It wasn't until my wife and I started dating

and she realized my mood swings

and she realized that I would forget a lot of things,

she realized the patterns.

And her job, basically, being a therapist, she understood

the symptoms and kind of pointed it out to me.

And I would take it to offense, you know, that she would

point those things out, and we'd argue about it.

And about a year into our relationship,

it was really bad because

I was starting to realize that

maybe there is something wrong with me.

I thought the nights that I didn't fall asleep were just

because maybe I worked out too late or something,

but she would point things out to me.

Then I started to become more aware

of what was actually going on, and so in 2010, I believe,

was when I actually had my first experience with treatment.

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