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My children...they more or less stay out of the way.

Angela Holmes, Wife of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about how PTSD affected her family.

Transcript

My children will wake up and first thing

that comes out of their mouth is, "Is Dad awake?"

and "What's his mood? Is he happy? Is he sad?"

And if they can hear laughter coming from the bedroom

or the tone in his voice is OK, then they automatically assume

that, you know, we're going to have a good day,

and it's not going to be stressful.

They can come home from school and hear the tone of the voice

just by him on the telephone or, and they know immediately

that things have triggered something,

and they more or less stay out of the way.

I don't want them to hide, but they don't want to cause

more drama and more stress in the household

that is not necessary.

And I know my little son, my 11-year-old,

he can pick it out better than I can now

because he's watched, for now eight years, it come and go,

and he's able to pick out just by the way Dad's sitting,

by the way Dad is playing with the dog, or speaking to me

if he's in a good mood or if he's in a bad mood.

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