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You yourself push people away to create a safe environment.

Rick Collier, US Marine Corps 2002 - 2006, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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None of my relationships have survived other

than with my wife.

You lose everybody.

There's just no emotional connection

when you don't trust somebody, everything just fades away

and you get disconnected because it feels like you don't know

who somebody is anymore.

You feel that they just can't relate, they can't understand

and then you yourself push people away

to create a safe environment for yourself.

I mean that's pretty much what I did with everybody.

And my wife, she wouldn't allow me to push her away.

She fought through every step.

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