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When I got my third DUI and I had to go to jail, I realized…I've got a problem drinking.

Chris Swift (US Army, 1999-2018) describes how he started to make connections between his drinking, PTSD, and other challenges in his life.

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Once I realized that

I had an issue, that I had PTSD

and then I had

an issue drinking.

So those were

two separate revelations,

like when I got my third

DUI and I had to go to jail,

I realized, all right,

I've got a problem drinking.

And then once I go

into PTSD groups,

I'm like, oh, maybe I have PTSD,

and then I'm going

into the substance

abuse program,

and now it's like,

maybe I use my drinking problem

to cover my PTSD problem.

And from there,

I created all these other-

these other problems for me

because people didn't

want to hang around me

because all

I would want to do is drink.

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