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You'll have two or three bad days like back to back.

Angela Holmes, Wife of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about what it's like to live with someone who has PTSD.

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Some days are good, and some days --

I mean, you can go weeks with no outbursts, no nothing,

and those are the days that you thrive on.

Those are the days that are like,

"Oh, maybe we're getting better, maybe it's going to stop.

Maybe,we've gotten past that point where,

OK, the bad days are behind us."

And then all of a sudden, you know, you'll

have two or three bad days, like, back-to-back,

and then you're at square one again.

Well, you have to give 110 percent that first day again.

Just like they come home, you have to --

that right there has been my biggest obstacle,

is just to keep going and not to back out

because there's been plenty of times that I could have.

But I look at the situation and say,

"Well, I didn't leave when he was in Iraq.

I knew what he was going to be like when he came home.

I'm here for the long haul, and I'm not going to quit."

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