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As the older sibling, I was always worried about my brother.

Donald Sullivan Jr., Son of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about how PTSD affected his family.

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As the older sibling, I was always worried about my brother.

By the time I was 21, I started dealing with some issues

on my own, PTSD-related, and I think I started

to understand a little bit what was going on,

but I always knew my brother was there,

and he was really the biggest victim.

You know, my mother's capacity to deal with it,

she was overloaded.

I mean, God bless her, she tried her best,

but you know, she grew up with my father.

They had two kids together, they lost a child together,

they were married when he went to Vietnam,

and her parents were dead before I was born, so her world

was turned upside down, which meant my brother's was.

And I was always concerned about him,

but there was nothing I could do.

I'm in school, and by the time I turned 21,

my head wasn't in it either.

And there are things, today, I see in my brother

that I think might be different had this not occurred.

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