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You couldn't say anything. You couldn't calm him down.

Steve Sullivan, Son of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about the signs of PTSD that he saw.

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Road rage.

Road rage, I would say, until a few years ago was,

it was very difficult to be in a car with him.

There were many points that I would sit in the front seat

and nothing I could say or do would calm him down,

and I would literally open up the glove compartment,

pull out the owner's manual, and just start leafing through it

and reading the pages because I didn't want to look and see

what was going on in front of me.

I didn't want to look at him and acknowledge

what was going on, or just, there was nothing you could do.

You couldn't say anything, you couldn't calm him down.

You couldn't reason with him that this person had just,

you know, two seconds maybe run a light

and cut out in front of him, where he wasn't going anyway,

or someone gave him a look or did something,

and that was all that it took.

And I've been in the vehicle with him

following someone for close to half an hour,

just waiting for some opportunity to say something

or do something, and there's not much you can do.

So certainly, anger is another thing that --

never taken out on me, I don't think.

I don't have a memory of it being

particularly directed toward me, but just about anybody else.

It was a hair-trigger for a very long time.

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