Those close toĀ Donald Trump fear the former president ā€œmay have legit PTSDā€ from the assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally last month.

Thatā€™s according to aĀ Vanity FairĀ report published Wednesday that claimed those in Trumpā€™s inner circle have noticed that heā€™s become fixated on a seven-second clip that shows the moment he nearly lost his life.

ā€œHeā€™s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the headā€”over and over and over again,ā€ said a Republican close to the campaign, reportedĀ Vanity Fair.

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    3 months ago

    Its funny right. If he could have just shut the fuck up and let the convention happen around him, and then not been a total fucking cunt, he probably could have coasted on that into November. He could have been a ā€œchanged manā€ like they were trying to set him up as and just stepped a bit back, been a bit more reserved and honestly, he would be much harder to beat.

    Idk man. I have PTSD from my time in military service where I get woken up at night and have to do something. And that shit was a long ass time ago. It doesnā€™t really get better. I mean you can do drugs about it. Finding the company of others with a shared experience helps. But it doesnā€™t go away.

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      3 months ago

      Completely unqualified suggestion here but,

      have you tried going for a run when you wake up at the middle of the night?

      I was having the problem of waking up at 3am and unable to fall sleep, I started to embrace it, prepare some coffee, stretch a bit and then get out to run to a completely deserted city.

      Running is very therapeutic, when you get intrusive thoughts, you just squeeze further running until your brain cannot focus on other thing than breathing.

      I found a time-frame of therapy that only belongs to me and it has also helped me with the sleeping problems.

      I am not qualified or anything and I donā€™t want to diminish your problem, but if it could help I just wanted to let it out.

      Cheers.