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This lesson may be a great tune up for Stace as well, since it’s geared toward bring the two of you closer to the real world, i.e. my world. I give both Stace and Aps an A+ for successfully finishing the first homework assignment of finding the correct medical data as used in determining a 100% PTSD veteran. Btw, my lowest GAF (Global Assessment Functioning) rating during that 1992 hospital inpatient cohort was 25. You need not look to find what that number represented. Stace has already supplied an answer which wasn’t much better than that of someone being comatose or of a catatonic Thorazine shuffling fool.
I have had PTSD or a facsimile thereof for over 40 years, with it’s genesis originating during adolescence as being the victim of severe and chronic physical beatings.
From the moment I ran away from home, I learned to shun every dependency label that peers and authority figures had willingly and readily assigned to me. I refused to play the victim role; refused to whine; refused to beg for anything, and refused to take orders from careless, inconsiderate, and pig-headed authority figures. In essence, I have linked childhood abuse and reinforcing combat traumas as being the impetus to the precocious development of my mind. I also shun that ridiculous saying, “You’re a survivor”. Anyone still breathing air is a survivor of some unpleasant experience or another. I don’t need to wear any silly medals that would undoubtedly cover up the ‘real’ me.
My work ethic, my desire to fight for what is right (including my service to country), and the commitment to better myself by soaring past or avoiding dependable prescribed anti depressant drugs, by staying physically and mentally active and sound--had in affect placed me squarely into the Republican/Conservative camp of ideals and ambitions.
If I had been a liberal before being traumatized--I would surely have been a lifelong member of an institutionalized ward of the government. The VA would have provided me with a hospital bed/home, with food, with a safe environment, with a daily supply of Prozac, Zoloft or Paxil, and I would get to whine at will to the psyche nurses that the T.V. in the recreation room was still too snowy. You see, liberals in general have no ambition, cannot adhere to structure or rules, refuse to fight for anything (thus the often pacifist label), and by lying in a hospital bed all day, they wouldn’t have to tax their lethargic brains by setting any kind of lifelong goals for them or their families.
To me, hard work and an appreciation for ones’ accomplishments/achievements will in the end lead to satisfaction, contentment and happiness. I fail to see how someone that depends on government, or someone refusing to fight, or someone settling for less or second best, or for whatever is most convenient at the time will lead to anything other than misery and despair. Those character traits have become a liberal’s mantra as well as his birthright.
Stace & Aps: I won’t go into further detail of how and why my 25 rating had sunk to that level in 1992. My desire here is to show you how this PTSD scourge of the past can and has been overturned. By my example, you’ll also learn how one can actually profit both mentally and physically for having been exposed to such extreme conditions in the first place. You must have a discerning eye to follow such a course of reasoning to it's desired end.
I have posted on numerous PTSD forums for civilians, veterans and their wives or girlfriends.
PTSD can and does often kick *** to the point of no return for many. Most PTSDers love to (almost in braggadocio) fashion claim that there is no cure for PTSD. Of course there is no magic elixir pill as a cure all. But these people are losers in life. Once ambitious lively souls have been crushed for good. They tend to resign life to popping a potpourri of anti depressant pills, and they let the VA supply them with all their medical needs. Most have given up hope of being a productive member of society; they’ve become hideaways to safe bunkers of retreat. They’re calling it quits…the white flag flies proudly over their broken compound.
It has been 14 years since I stumbled into that black hole of loneliness and despair at that VA hospital. With degrees of higher education at my fingertips; I find no need to dwell any further on that low point in life.
All I ask from you two gals, is for you to engage me or others on the merits of politics for the subject at hand. I’ll fully understand if you feel somewhat incompetent in debating politics.
To suggest that someone is psychologically imbalanced, or perhaps has hallucinating visions of pink elephants dancing on his monitor--is not being honest or real. It does show you as having a penchant to produce red-herrings, and it isn’t conducive to keeping ’debate politics’ the amusing show that it is. Come on girls, you can do better than that!
Oh, I almost forgot, this is the flaming basement where anything goes. Please disregard everything I just said….it’s all rubbish, I may have been hallucinating or disassociating, LOL!
I have had PTSD or a facsimile thereof for over 40 years, with it’s genesis originating during adolescence as being the victim of severe and chronic physical beatings.
From the moment I ran away from home, I learned to shun every dependency label that peers and authority figures had willingly and readily assigned to me. I refused to play the victim role; refused to whine; refused to beg for anything, and refused to take orders from careless, inconsiderate, and pig-headed authority figures. In essence, I have linked childhood abuse and reinforcing combat traumas as being the impetus to the precocious development of my mind. I also shun that ridiculous saying, “You’re a survivor”. Anyone still breathing air is a survivor of some unpleasant experience or another. I don’t need to wear any silly medals that would undoubtedly cover up the ‘real’ me.
My work ethic, my desire to fight for what is right (including my service to country), and the commitment to better myself by soaring past or avoiding dependable prescribed anti depressant drugs, by staying physically and mentally active and sound--had in affect placed me squarely into the Republican/Conservative camp of ideals and ambitions.
If I had been a liberal before being traumatized--I would surely have been a lifelong member of an institutionalized ward of the government. The VA would have provided me with a hospital bed/home, with food, with a safe environment, with a daily supply of Prozac, Zoloft or Paxil, and I would get to whine at will to the psyche nurses that the T.V. in the recreation room was still too snowy. You see, liberals in general have no ambition, cannot adhere to structure or rules, refuse to fight for anything (thus the often pacifist label), and by lying in a hospital bed all day, they wouldn’t have to tax their lethargic brains by setting any kind of lifelong goals for them or their families.
To me, hard work and an appreciation for ones’ accomplishments/achievements will in the end lead to satisfaction, contentment and happiness. I fail to see how someone that depends on government, or someone refusing to fight, or someone settling for less or second best, or for whatever is most convenient at the time will lead to anything other than misery and despair. Those character traits have become a liberal’s mantra as well as his birthright.
Stace & Aps: I won’t go into further detail of how and why my 25 rating had sunk to that level in 1992. My desire here is to show you how this PTSD scourge of the past can and has been overturned. By my example, you’ll also learn how one can actually profit both mentally and physically for having been exposed to such extreme conditions in the first place. You must have a discerning eye to follow such a course of reasoning to it's desired end.
I have posted on numerous PTSD forums for civilians, veterans and their wives or girlfriends.
PTSD can and does often kick *** to the point of no return for many. Most PTSDers love to (almost in braggadocio) fashion claim that there is no cure for PTSD. Of course there is no magic elixir pill as a cure all. But these people are losers in life. Once ambitious lively souls have been crushed for good. They tend to resign life to popping a potpourri of anti depressant pills, and they let the VA supply them with all their medical needs. Most have given up hope of being a productive member of society; they’ve become hideaways to safe bunkers of retreat. They’re calling it quits…the white flag flies proudly over their broken compound.
It has been 14 years since I stumbled into that black hole of loneliness and despair at that VA hospital. With degrees of higher education at my fingertips; I find no need to dwell any further on that low point in life.
All I ask from you two gals, is for you to engage me or others on the merits of politics for the subject at hand. I’ll fully understand if you feel somewhat incompetent in debating politics.
To suggest that someone is psychologically imbalanced, or perhaps has hallucinating visions of pink elephants dancing on his monitor--is not being honest or real. It does show you as having a penchant to produce red-herrings, and it isn’t conducive to keeping ’debate politics’ the amusing show that it is. Come on girls, you can do better than that!
Oh, I almost forgot, this is the flaming basement where anything goes. Please disregard everything I just said….it’s all rubbish, I may have been hallucinating or disassociating, LOL!