So it looks like I'm going to VA next week because I'm showing signs that I might have PTSD. That alone has me feeling done. So I was wondering how do you guys cope with it and also what should do with the VA about getting a new disable rating if I do have it since I have heard nothing but horror stories about it getting them to change it.
So it looks like I'm going to VA next week because I'm showing signs that I might have PTSD. That alone has me feeling done. So I was wondering how do you guys cope with it and also what should do with the VA about getting a new disable rating if I do have it since I have heard nothing but horror stories about it getting them to change it.
So it looks like I'm going to VA next week because I'm showing signs that I might have PTSD. That alone has me feeling done. So I was wondering how do you guys cope with it and also what should do with the VA about getting a new disable rating if I do have it since I have heard nothing but horror stories about it getting them to change it.
So it looks like I'm going to VA next week because I'm showing signs that I might have PTSD. That alone has me feeling done. So I was wondering how do you guys cope with it and also what should do with the VA about getting a new disable rating if I do have it since I have heard nothing but horror stories about it getting them to change it.
I listened to an interview with a very successful vet who was diagnosed with PTSD and he didn't agree that it was a disorder and instead thought it was very normal to feel as he did for what he went through..
When I first came home.....I stayed in contact with those who had survived in my unit. Which there wasn't many. Which we stayed in touch thru the years. But now there are only a couple of us left. I am the last of those from my squad. For me I think I was to caught up in the streetlife. Money, money, money.....then the Partying and Drinking. Women.....Business. Fast-lane and all. Never had the time to sit and really be thinking about things. Those around me.....seemed to care. Not like when I first came home. Moreover I had gone thru something similar with those who grew up around and with me. Growing up on the streets I had seen death at a young age. Blood people shot. Seeing kids in caskets. Funerals and our parents. The whole bit. Living thru wounds taken and surviving a war. I don't know if I closed myself off to the world or if the world had just encapsulated me.
All I know is I live with it all and I can never forget any of it.....faces, smells, all the reminders and just about any music bring it all back. Getting older, what wears on me is why me.....why I am the last. I shouldn't be here. Now even my family is gone. I don't go out as much into the public other when I am working. No longer go to the VFW. Have even missed going out on Flag Day and other event wherein at least I could be around those who know what it is like. Sure others try and encourage me to come around. Other than the work around my property I really don't go outside anywheres. It's like I am becoming a hermit without even trying. The OL does the shopping and most of time I don't even have to put gas into the car. All those mundane activities out in public dropped down to the very minimum or as if it would be like an emergency.
Hell I even still get into the NAM crouch. Be sitting in my backyard like that just sitting and staring off into the woods on the creek. Thinking about people and then.....Nothing!
Nervous Condition, PTSD, depression.....I don't really even try to think on it. I just take one day at a time as it comes. Sometimes the time is slower, and taken that way in whatever moment. All I know is I don't sleep and it is rare for anything over 5 hrs. I think I would have to stay up for like 3 days just to sleep 8 hrs thru and know what a restful sleep is like. I can't even remember when I had a dream nor can I ever forget the faces of those who were my bruthas and cuzins......nor my enemies.
I'm so sorry MMC. That must be hell for you.
First off IMO don't take the meds! They are a crutch and do more harm than good. I think I live the way I do because in a way I still have some low level PTSD. I don't like or trust people much and having my nearest neighbor three miles away helps me breathe easy. There is one road into my property and I hate to admit it but I have established several OPs along it just in case. I also have a plan to real quick obliterate my road entirely with a couple of scoops with my back hoe to divert a stream to run down it. In case of what I'm not sure but just in case. I also have guns and ammo stashed at strategic locations along with food and med supplies and there is a loaded gun in every room of my house I probably shouldn't admit to this stuff, it makes me sound nuts but who gives a f***.
I think that is bad advice.. It would depend on how serious his PTSD is and how he is functioning in his daily life....
Well, and it would be on the aspect if he could take the medication. Many of the Anti-Depressants used are with Seratonin. I could never take the stuff.....always broke out in rashes. So Myself I never took anything. Except for all kinds of over the counter headache meds.
When they came out with those Alleves I was happy that something worked. I did actually sleep for like 5hrs straight thru......so far they have worked the best.
Course now they have me take one Bayer aspirin a week too. Plus they are on my ass about smoking.
So it looks like I'm going to VA next week because I'm showing signs that I might have PTSD. That alone has me feeling done. So I was wondering how do you guys cope with it and also what should do with the VA about getting a new disable rating if I do have it since I have heard nothing but horror stories about it getting them to change it.
I think that is bad advice.. It would depend on how serious his PTSD is and how he is functioning in his daily life....
So it looks like I'm going to VA next week because I'm showing signs that I might have PTSD. That alone has me feeling done. So I was wondering how do you guys cope with it and also what should do with the VA about getting a new disable rating if I do have it since I have heard nothing but horror stories about it getting them to change it.
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