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The last trigger that I had from PTSD happened during my R and R
which was about a year and a half ago.
I had just come back from Iraq and I was tired
and my wife had waited a long time to see a movie
and so she finally went to see it.
And she wanted to see it in the IMAX.
I had been home maybe six hours so I thought, "Ah, that's great,
let's go catch a movie."
So we and got a bite to eat and I was tired
and we went to the theater.
And IMAX movies always start off with a type of a speaker check.
I must have passed out in the theater prior to the movie
and all of a sudden the speaker check came
on which is a loud explosion to me
and it just set it off right away.
And a good hour and a half into the movie,
my wife said I was literally kind of crumbled in my chair,
just kind of holding onto her arm real tight
and she was engulfed in the movie so she didn't realize it
but every time she look back she said I wasn't really looking
at the movie, I was more or less just kind of looking around.
And the only thing I can remember were gunfire
in the movie, the sound of a propeller like a helicopter.
I actually had to go see the movie again 'cause I had no idea
what I saw for two and a half hours.
The only thing it took me back
to was I think every single deployment I'd ever had
for that two hours.
I just kept seeing images of where I'd been
and it would change from sound to sound.
So that was the last anxiety attack I had.