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It's difficult to keep a job.

Richard Braley, US Marine Corps 1967 - 1970, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

Transcript

The inability to continually stay employed is a problem

with PTSD.

The reason other Veterans,

you guys out there know what I'm saying, it's difficult

to keep a job when you get the feeling

that you're being stifled, you're being smothered,

you're being surrounded by people who don't know,

people who don't understand you or what you went through.

People who don't care, people who have the corporate goals

in mind and they don't care about the people who are trying

to get them to reach those goals.

So it's easier to leave and go someplace else

and try something else with someone else

who might have a better understanding,

who might have a better idea of what you're going through

and who might be willing to be patient with you

and your flaws whatever they might be.

When you find out that that didn't work you move

on to another job and it's repeating.

You need to find out why you're changing jobs

and if you can determine why, then you can work on that.

I think the best thing for you to do,

talk to a counselor at the VA.

They'll talk to you about it.

They may find that up to this point you've always had the

wrong job, maybe you need to be in a different kind of career

and they might help you with that.

Or they might tell you that it's part

of PTSD, let's work on that.

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