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Post-traumatic stress disorder rarely turns people into killers,
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but soldiers with PTSD
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have been known to strangle their wives in bed
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while having flashbacks or nightmares,
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believing they're on the battlefield.
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In 2005, an Iraqi war vet assaulted two people in Las Vegas,
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believing them to be enemy combatants.
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So Dolan's having a sustained flashback.
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Pathological disassociation
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is one of the markers of complex PTSD,
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although Dolan has been stateside for 6 years.
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An escalation of the symptoms is possible,