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It's hard for the wife...not to take it personally.

Karen Sullivan (wife of a Veteran with PTSD) talks about what was hardest for her.

Transcript

It's hard not, for the wife, the spouse,

not to take it personally.

When your spouse is really angry or in a bad mood,

your first instinct is, "He must be mad at me,

I must have done something wrong."

And you know, on a good day you say to yourself,

"Well, it's just the PTSD, he's just having a bad day."

But on a bad day, when you're tired, you just say,

"I don't really care what the reason is,

I don't really feel like dealing with it today."

So it is hard, it is hard some days.

But if you can just hang in there and if you can just remember

that it can get better, but there's some hard work involved

as far as the treatment and the medication, but it really,

you know, from Don and from his buddies that I know,

they've come full circle, and they're really happy again.

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