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Miller said he found people did not want to hear about PTSD.
"People don't understand that you can get PTSD from anything.
It's a near-death experience and being able to escape that and
just to be able to relive that," he said.
マルボロマンがPTSDに罹ってしまったことなど、
皆聞きたがらないとミラーさんが言っています。
話題にすらしようとしないのだと。
「PTSDはどんな原因でも起こり得ることが理解されていないんです。
まして私は死と隣り合わせの経験をしたんです」

He still worries his PTSD may one day trigger another violent outburst.
"If I was to act out, I don't know what I'd do.
I was really scared at first when I found out that this was actually
what it was, that what if I had done something to my wife or
to someone I cared about or loved?"
"And that tore me all to pieces. I had no idea how to deal with it."

Today, he drives a couple hours to the Veterans Hospital
to talk to a psychiatrist several times a month.
月に三回、車を運転して復員軍人病院に通っています。

「このままじっと家に閉じこもっているのは絶対に嫌なんです。
人生はまだ長い。しっかりと生きていきたいんです」

＜どうやってやっていくつもりですか＞

「精一杯生きようと努力しています。
過去の辛い経験は振り返らず、
一日一日を大切に過ごしていこうと思っているんです」




RETURNING TROOPS
1 in 3 seek mental health treatment
1 in 5 suffer PTSD