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My family...they became scared of me.

Laurent G. Taillefer II, US Army 2003 - 2006, talks about how his PTSD affected his loved ones.

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The biggest thing that PTSD did to my family is

they became scared of me.

That's probably what I was most scared of, is having my

family, most of all, think that I was in some way dangerous.

My dad got himself cut, he dropped a knife and it stabbed him.

And I had Combat Lifesaver training, so I patch him up,

and he thinks it's hilarious for when my mom gets home

to tell her that I had stabbed him.

And I thought it was going to be funny, I thought.

And then my mom goes, "I knew it, I thought so.

Something, something's not right, right?

Something's wrong."

And I'm in the next room.

I run in, I'm like, "What's the matter with you?

I didn't do this, of course not.

How could you possibly think that

I would have anything to do with this?"

It's like, "Well, you're just under a lot of stress

since you've been back, you know?

You're the same as you were in the Army,

and you've been back for years now, what's going on?"

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