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My heart starts to race, things tighten up, muscles tighten up.

SPC Rob Tucker, US Army 2009 - present, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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Once I got back home, I was driving.

I did a lot of driving when I was over there, almost everyday.

So driving here is a lot different

than driving over there.

Over there you avoid every pothole you possibly can 'cause

who knows what's inside of it.

Here usually a pothole is just a pothole.

A bag of trash or something beside the road here is usually

a bag of trash.

Over there, who knows what's inside of it.

So you swerve, stuff like that, for a couple

of months I did that here.

Even still I kind of look

at things like, "Whoa, what's that?"

Your heart races or mine does anyway.

My heart starts to race, things tighten up, muscles tighten up.

I actually start looking around, almost like I'm looking

for a trigger man, stuff like that.

You know, I try to swerve away from it, get on the other side

of the road, stuff like that.

But yeah, little things like that,

it's not normal I guess for here, you know.

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