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It'd be the simplest little thing and I'd almost shut down.

James Monk, US Air Force 1988 - 2011, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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It really, really didn't even strike me as a problem

until after I had started with therapy.

That was when I realized, "Wow, little brown kids set me off."

It was something I wasn't even aware of.

You know, sometimes, it might the simplest little thing

and you'd get mad.

Sometimes, it'd be the simplest little thing

and, you know, I'd almost shut down.

Sometimes it'd, you know, it'd put me in a, in just a state of

sadness, for want of a better term, that would last for days,

and it would take a long time to get out of it.

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