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    Looking For Answers

    Dude you're saying something that I think most of us can relate to, me especially. I was in Iraq '05-'06 and didn't really begin processing things till I left the service in '08 and came back home. Even before then though, if I saw a flag on a transfer case (I worked mortuary) I'd start f-ing...
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    Air Show Crashes

    So I don't know if anyone on here caught news of the recent air show crash in Kansas City that resulted in the death of a pilot. I know I'm just bitching here, but I need to vent. I just wish that these events would get banned already. At my base a few years back while I was still in the...
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    Usaf Combat Vet

    Yep, Air Force Services over here. Welcome to the site.
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    Just Over A Week Till The First Appointment

    I feel you on the paperwork issue brother, I do. I'm awful with the stuff in all walks of life, not just medically related. I know it sucks to do it but try and get the stuff done that will help with cash. If you can sit down and do it with someone you trust (easier said than done, I know)...
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    Tired Of Negative People

    Heh heh, yeah sorry it was my girlfriend lol. No little ones yet so far thank goodness. No way I could handle that with school. Thanks for the good words though, I appreciate it. I don't get the negativity though from kids, and maybe its a generational thing, I really don't know, even though...
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    Hospital.

    Damn man, that's a really high temperature. If you didn't know they were waiting to see if you'd fart to know that your gastrointestinal tract is functioning again properly. General anesthesia impairs peristalsis (the squeezing that your insides do to move food through you for digestion) and...
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    Tired Of Negative People

    I tend to be a pretty negative person, not in that "hey let me piss in your Cheerios" kind of way but more like I can't help but see how crappy things are and I always have to point out shortcomings in movies or shows. Its something I really hate about myself and I know it can make me a wet...
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    Need The Title Of A Book

    So I'm hoping someone on here can help me out. Back in '05 or '06 I heard a radio show on NPR about a book that had recently been written about the decline of American senators and congressmen who have families in the military. Back in the day most everyone had a son or nephew in some branch...
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    How I Am Feeling

    Are you a Deutschlander femalevet? I was stationed in Germany for two years and miss it dearly. I don't know about the rest of Germany, but Western Germany is sooo green.
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    I Am Not Angry At Anybody But I Am Angry At Myself Tonight

    I'm sorry to hear about your experience with the guy from your prior support group. That's just screwed up. Hitting on an injured woman recovering from surgery after inviting her into your home under false pretenses. What a slime bag.
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    Troubles

    Things haven't been so great for me lately. After totaling my car & getting screwed by my insurance company, I had to drop two classes from school (I'm in nursing school) due to my injuries plus not having a car, which then cut my income down to practically nothing since the Veteran's Affairs...
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    Biting Her Head Off

    Ended up yelling at my girlfriend again. Minutes ago we were sitting around watching Sunday night programming together and I had baked some cookies. While eating one I kinda started choking a bit, like it went down the wrong pipe or something, and after I manage to get myself under control...
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    How do you cope with feelings of Helplessness?

    BioHazard, all you can do with your nephew is try to educate him about the realities of going into the service. I think soldiering is a perfectly honorable profession and the country will always need men and women who are willing to step forward. That being said, I don't think people ever...
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    Well, I Did It

    Sorry to hear that man. I've lost a number of "friends" since coming back home and dealing with my issues. I'm just now in my first relationship since having PTSD and it has been challenging. I know it sounds corny but there are plenty of fish in the sea and you will meet someone else. Hang...
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    Biting Her Head Off

    Lately its been pointed out to me that I yell at my girlfriend sometimes. She moved in about two months ago and its been quite an adjustment, especially since she's the first girlfriend I've ever lived with. While driving myself, her and my sister down to a family event, my sister later told...
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    Fear

    Is anyone else on here just afraid for no reason? I go through most days, really every day, terrified and sick to my stomach. Literally nauseated. I walk around with an impending sense of doom, feeling like the other shoe is going to drop any second. I can't say what exactly I'm terrified...
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    Advice To Help My New Man, Undiagnosed Combat Ptsd

    Jan- I don't have much experience with relationships but hopefully I can tell you something that may be of help as a man who lost one relationship (partly because of my PTSD and my girl's...total unwillingness to listen to me about anything related to combat or the mortuary work I did in...
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    France Bashing And All That Kind Of Stuff

    I've never understood the whole French hate from America, whether I'm at wrestling practice or back when I was in the service, sooner or later some guy would say something disparaging about France. Usually these people A) had never left the country B) had never been to France C) never been in...
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    Knowing About PTSD Before Deployment - Did You?

    I wasn't really told anything about it before deployment, but working mortuary it was mandatory that the team I was on have a debriefing with an Air Force chaplain and mental health therapist. Not sure if the Army mandated it, I was on an Air Force team that worked out of an Army facility with...
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    The Two Sides Of Me

    Man all I'll say is that I get frustrated way, way, way easier than I used to and go from being agreeable to filled with rage in a few seconds. Driving in a car with my best friend of over 20 years and he starts being a back seat driver? I wanted to belt him in the face and kick him out of the...
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    Preparedness

    I know the smell of burned bodies too well. Its a sickening smell and it haunts me. We got mortared fairly often, but I was always much, much more worried about suicide bombers. I knew there were spies on the base and less than a year prior a bomber had made his way into a mess hall in Iraq...
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    Military Conditioning (Anger/Aggression)

    After leaving Active Duty I was transferred into the Reserves and it wasn't until I was back home, in my hometown, when things really started getting bad for me. After having a particularly frustrating drill day where I literally was begging for work to do and being shooed away because I was...
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    Just Need To Vent & Don't Know A Good Subject

    I was seeing a therapist at the VA for anxiety, depression and risk for ptsd? (more on that later), but haven't seen her for months now. God probably a year by now, I don't know. But basically at one point she just stopped scheduling appointments for me. No explanation or anything, she just...
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    What do you do to blow off steam/relax?

    What do you do to blow off steam/relax? So, I thought it may be interesting/a good idea to see what you guys who recognize that you have anger problems (and I'm one of 'em) do to channel that anger into something positive (or at the very least not destructive). Exercise is a big one for most...
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    Would you still be enlisted?

    I really miss a lot of military life and still toy around with the idea of going back in once I get my degree. I think the thing I miss most is the travel and that feeling that you never really knew what was going to happen, where you would go, and what the mission would be. While I was in...
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