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My first sound that triggered me...it was a tractor trailer.

Chris Antonio, US Army 1999 - 2007, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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There are many triggers out there, and it all depends on,

it depends on what you have personally experienced

yourself as you were in theater.

My first sound that triggered me

the first time I had a flashback,

I came from a very small town, a steel mill town actually,

and I was living above this studio.

And there was a tractor trailer going down the road,

and it hit its Jake brake.

And a Jake brake is, it's just an extra brake

that helps you slow the vehicle down, and when it does that

it sounds like a machine gun going off.

When I heard that, it automatically took me back to the

theater, and that's where I experienced my first flashback at.

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