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We're in the daylight more.

Lee Norris (Husband of a Veteran with PTSD) talks about how PTSD treatment changed things.

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Prior to us getting any treatment, we had a family room

that was in a sub-basement area, and we turned that

into our bedroom, with a mini-fridge, with a wood stove,

laundry room attached, bathroom attached, and we lived there.

We wouldn't come up for days, sometimes.

And we have since turned that back into a family room.

And we remodeled our bedroom, we now have our bedroom

upstairs, we now have our living room back, we remodeled that,

so that we're living together, and we're living in a house,

not living in a dungeon just isolating from everything.

So we're more social to each other, we're in the daylight more,

it's just the whole thing just, it feels right, now,

is the best way I can describe it.

And I mean, that is probably one of the biggest changes.

And that is due from some of the isolation.

We used to isolate, we still isolate to a point,

but we used to isolate to the point

that we didn't want to see anybody, ever.

And we're coming out of our shells, and we're able to go out

and do things together, go skiing, things like that,

go four-wheeling, and that's something that

we've had challenges with in the past.

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