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We've actually learned different ways to communicate.

Angela Holmes (wife of a Veteran with PTSD) talks about how PTSD treatment changed things.

Transcript

With me being able to understand where he's coming from now,

because of the family therapy classes,

we've actually learned different ways to communicate,

like just writing something down on a short piece of paper,

actually writing it down and getting it out before it explodes

into a worse conversation than what it could have been.

And maybe leaving it somewhere where, sooner or later,

he'll be able to find it during the day

and everything has calmed back down.

I write a lot of things down and then go back

and talk to him over afterwards because I know

at the heated moment, everything is going to blow up.

It's not going to be the way that

I thought the conversation should have been.

And going through family therapy, it does show you

where you could be if you would just work towards it.

You know, they tell you all the time,

"Well, you have to practice it at home.

You can't just practice it here in the office."

You actually have to do it at home for it to work.

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