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The PTSD has literally destroyed our little family outgoings.
We don't go outside very much as a family and enjoy
going to fireworks at the Fourth of July,
sitting on a parade route, going to baseball games,
going to sit at a football game.
He gets very paranoid or aggravated
at the people sitting around him.
Or we don't go on long drives anymore.
We used to sit in the car and just drive
and just watch the scenery, or go sit at a park.
We don't do that anymore because he's,
like, there's just too much paranoia,
like, it just gets to him, the people around him.
Or a certain smell will be in the air that he'll start to
gaze off to the distance, and I know, right then and there,
that something's clicking.
And then all of a sudden his attitude changes.
The temper and his tone of his voice changes,
and then all of a sudden he wants to pack up and leave.
And it's not, "Gather up your stuff,
we're going to be leaving in the next 10, 15 minutes."
No, it's, "Gather up your stuff, we're leaving now."
And he could care less if there's something left behind or not.
It's just, "Let's go."