Transcript
Like when we came home, you didn't know what was wrong
with you, you didn't think anything was wrong with you.
The only thing you want to do is to get back into life,
chase women, go back to college, whatever it was.
But I knew that there was something there.
I never felt really comfortable
in a lot of different settings and things like that,
but I just didn't feel comfortable within myself.
I tried getting back to work, I tried going back to college
and ended up feeling very uncomfortable around professors
who professed to know things about Vietnam that,
they didn't know what they were talking about.
So I had a lot of problems, I had a lot of
personal problems with people like that.
Some of them got into physical altercations with people.
But I really was interested in really getting
back into my life and enjoying my life, but I started,
in Vietnam we used drugs, and then when I came home
I started drinking and using copious amounts of drugs.
And that was just my way of covering up
and not wanting to realize that I did have a problem.
I thought "I'm fine, I'm going to get through this.
It's just going to take a little time."
But it didn't take time, and that carried on for a long, long
time before I finally was able to get some help, so to speak.