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PTSD
- Thread starter karlvv30
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I’m so sorry you guys are having to deal with this, took my youngest 14 years to realize he has PTSD before seeking help. He’s always been a tough m’fer but waking up in the middle of the night and grabbing the pistol under his pillow and checking every room in the house because of every noise he woke up to with his wife in there was probably the last straw for him. He was a totally different man when he came home from Iraq in ‘08 but I couldn’t make him understand he might have a problem with PTSD. He finally admitted it to the VA doc and like y’all he just wanted to fill my son up with meds but this kid won’t even take a freakin’ Tylenol. He made the VA pay for him to see a civilian doc and he’s doing better. He’s been looking into holistic healing methods and changed his diet up. This is what’s helped him most, his blood pressure is back under control and most nights he sleeps pretty good now. No two people are totally alike and what works for one won’t work for another. I pray you all find the peace to help ease your mind, body & soul…
Anyone have trouble watching war movies from their era? I watched American Sniper about a week ago and I had to stop the movie and do something else at least 8 times. I didn’t have that issue when I watched it a couple years ago but I was also still AD.
Not sure if it’s related but I have a feeling it probably is.
Not sure if it’s related but I have a feeling it probably is.
2 months in a VA psych ward still won't help. Ask me how I know. Get use to it I've had it for 21 years now.
I finally got to a point where the 4th of July doesn't bother me anymore.
People ask me though. It's not the PTSD that's my issue it's the TBI I got from an IED that caused my hmmv to flip on my head doing 60 MPH while I was in the turret. Among the other 6 explosions that happened. Now I have migraines every couple of days and I sleep maybe 3 hours a night on top of that. So PTSD isn't my main issue.
PTSD is just a side effect of war and everyone who's seen combat gets it in some form or other regardless of whether or not they want to admit it.
For some it is just an inability to save money. Because they are still living like there may be no tomorrow.
PTSD is just a side effect of war and everyone who's seen combat gets it in some form or other regardless of whether or not they want to admit it.
For some it is just an inability to save money. Because they are still living like there may be no tomorrow.
One other thing, for the longest time I thought only combat Veterans would suffer from PTSD but that’s actually not the case. Even civilians can have it. This is the first time I think I’ve ever said anything about it except to my wife but after losing my Mom in 2018 it hit me like a ton of bricks. Not because we were close because the first 58 years of my life I couldn’t get along with her for anything, even went through a few years without even speaking on several occasions. The last year & a half of her life we had actually buried the hatchet and tried to be civil with each other, that made her death hurt 100 times worse. She died in my home with me holding her hand. She had been married and divorced eight freakin’ times, threw me out and disowned me when I was 12 years old. Then I got shipped off to military school, I tried to reconnect with her on summer break but it only lasted two weeks before she threw me out again. We wouldn’t speak again until I was 16. She wasn’t just an alcoholic but she was a mean drunk too. Once she actually called on my birthday when I was in my 30’s but not to talk to me but to tell my wife what a POS I was. Another two years we didn’t speak. My Granddad got Alzheimers and dementia that lasted 3 years before he passed, I was the last person he could recognize as not being an imposter. He had asked for me and I was on my way to take him a Thanksgiving meal in ‘85 but passed like 5 minutes before I could get to him. That absolutely crushed me. Then my Grandmother got throat cancer and passed about 10 minutes before I could get to her in ‘89. Then in ‘94 my Dad’s youngest brother passed when we were visiting my Dad in Tennessee. One of his neighbors had left a message that they couldn’t get him to answer to phone or the door but the tv was still playing pretty loud so I hauled ass to his house and found him dead of heart failure. In ‘98 my Dad died with me holding him after the ventilator was turned off. My wife was diagnosed with MS in ‘03, had 3 heart attacks in ‘17 & ‘18. My youngest went to war in ‘08, my oldest almost died in ‘06 from undiagnosed type1 diabetes at age 26, his blood sugar measured at 1239, they gave him between a 10 & 15% chance of living through the night. When I lost my dog to cancer the very week the scamdemic hit, the Vet had to come to my house to euthanize him with me holding him. That was about all I could take, losing him put me in a downward spiral I couldn’t get out of by myself. I was at the back doctor when I just lost it and broke down in tears. Four different psychiatrists and psychologists didn’t help me one bit, they were all females, did NOT understand men and three weren’t even American, everything they prescribed just made it worse. I was having night terrors from the meds when I could actually sleep so then I was afraid to sleep. The last one said I had severe depression, severe anxiety and PTSD. I told her I could’ve told you that **** lady except for the PTSD. I didn’t think civilians could even have that, but she said from everything I’ve been through in my life (and I left out a lot of crap cause I still can’t talk about it) that yes even regular folks can have it and not know because they think only the people who’ve seen combat can have PTSD. I hate the meds, the so called one on one therapy and I DO NOT do group therapy except on this site because I’m pretty sure you guys ain’t gonna ridicule me or just blow me off. My dog Finlay died in March 2020 but I got another one from the shelter in May, I was at a point where I wasn’t gonna make it another month without something drastic happening first. This little angel of a dog literally saved my life, man I just pray she outlives me. My wife made this sign for me after getting Dixie…
And this is Dixie, the little rascal who’s keeping me alive right now, she’s my constant companion….
And this is Dixie, the little rascal who’s keeping me alive right now, she’s my constant companion….
Seek help, now.
I had a friend that lived down around the corner from me who was a Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran, door gunner in a medivac helicopter who actually survived it. He told me he tried to watch Platoon once but couldn’t make it halfway because he said it felt too real. Never sought help because he refused to admit he had issues, drank himself to death because of it. So damn sad…
This thread should be stickied in this forum.
You know there are / will be others coming to this realization.
You know there are / will be others coming to this realization.
For those who don’t have a service or companion dog, remember this…
