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You just got out of the service, you should be happy.

Donald Joseph Prevost, US Marine Corps 1969 - 1970, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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I m talking about hard core depression.

I'm talking about the black hole, just the black hole

where you just don't care.

You know that no one will ever get it.

You know that there's no one out there

who could help you, talk to you.

Where you're always down and you don't know why.

You just survived a war, you should be happy.

You just got out of the service, you should be happy.

You put all that service in, it's over.

Now the rest of your whole life is ahead of you, you're trained,

you're ready for the world.

And then all of the sudden, something goes wrong

and you don't know what it is.

And if you don't know what it is,

you're beginning with upwards PTSD.

And if you don't address it, if you self-medicate: alcohol,

drugs, what have you, it blows up.

It's writ large then.

It becomes writ large, very frightening because then, me,

when I drank that's a super depression.

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