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[My wife] threatened to leave me.

Bill Talbott, US Air Force 1967 - 1971, talks about how his PTSD affected his loved ones.

Transcript

What pushed me is my love for my wife.

She threatened to leave me.

She was in tears and threatening to leave me.

I think probably in her mind she had her bags already packed

and ready to go back to her family.

And I know she was serious.

And I had to think about myself, I had to make a choice,

and I had to man up.

What am I going to do?

Am I going to sit here and wallow in my own self-pity?

Or am I going to try to get my life back together again

somehow, some way, find something

that was going to help me?

And so I said, "Yes, I'll go

to treatment, I'll take that step.

I don't know what it's going to be, I have no idea,

but I'll take that step."

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