Darrell Hammond Quotes

With the situation I was in when I was shot down, I self-identified as having PTSD.

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD.

All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody's rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch.

Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

I have a lot of nightmares.

But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

Treating war as farce is one way soldiers deal with it.

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.