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Watching the person I love...acting in a way that I knew was not in her soul.

Chris Hamilton, Son of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about what was hardest for him.

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The hardest part was just watching the person that I loved,

who was my mother, acting in a way that I knew

was not in her soul and in her being,

especially when it related it to my child and my wife.

My wife is the nicest person on the entire planet,

and my mother is the biggest proponent of that person.

And she was attacking her for the silliest of things

and for the, just the most minute of an infraction,

in her eyes -- not the right pediatrician,

not the right way to hold the bottle,

not the, whatever the issue may have been.

And it really became a power struggle

and a territorial issue that was so divisive to the family that

it was becoming a critical point in all of our relationships.

It was that debilitating.

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