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I think of PTSD as a relatively normal response to surviving,
witnessing, hearing about extraordinary experiences.
Those experiences really shake you to the core,
and you bring them back with you, home, as a civilian.
And the skills and the survival training that you received
in the military, they helped you survive and come back home,
but those skills and that training you received
don't quite translate to civilian life.
And the trauma that you experienced, that you witnessed
stays with you because you're human, because you feel,
because you empathize with people,
and so of course it would stay with you.
And it comes back in memories, in images, in thoughts,
and the sense that danger is right around the corner.
That's kind of what I think of as PTSD.
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