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...you're spending all your money on drinking and you know, you just need to get it together.

Jerry Reed, US Army 1979 - 1984, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

Transcript

At the time and everybody is going to say this

and I say this, oh yeah, the alcohol helped.

Yeah, for one day, but then the next day when I woke up,

I still had that problem.

And the drugs, oh yeah, it helped but then

when all the drugs were gone, I still had that problem.

And you keep drinking and you keep drugging until you get it

in your head and you fall down about three or four times

and you say, "Hey, I'm tired of falling down on my head.

I need to get my shit together."

Excuse my language but that's just the bottom line sinker.

After you get through falling so many times,

and looking in your pockets saying, "I'm broke."

There's cotton in your pockets, you're spending all your money

on drugs, you're spending all your money on drinking

and you know, you just need to get it together,

just go get some help.

I mean I did it.

We hide, you know, we hide it.

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