Good day!
I find it really hard to talk at ALL about PTSD. In the last year I have discovered that I suffer from PTSD and have for years. There was an incident while serving as an armoured crewman that has forever changed my life. I didn't feel it was "severe enough" to make me have PTSD and figured it was all just bad memories. Life happens and the many times of soldiering on makes you feel you just need to take it and move on.
I'm beginning my journey to seek some help and have found this site to be a great resource. It is time to come out of the shadows. Not medically diagnosed as having PTSD yet but from going through the VA page on PTSD it's not possible that diagnosis won't happen. :( As you can likely tell, avoidance is a huge problem for me but one of my biggest challenges is that it's been so many years and this last 1.5 years have probably been the worst. It feels like I'm falling apart. Why can't I keep it together like I have for so long? The challenge of being able to soldier on by yourself for so long....
I find it really hard to talk at ALL about PTSD. In the last year I have discovered that I suffer from PTSD and have for years. There was an incident while serving as an armoured crewman that has forever changed my life. I didn't feel it was "severe enough" to make me have PTSD and figured it was all just bad memories. Life happens and the many times of soldiering on makes you feel you just need to take it and move on.
I'm beginning my journey to seek some help and have found this site to be a great resource. It is time to come out of the shadows. Not medically diagnosed as having PTSD yet but from going through the VA page on PTSD it's not possible that diagnosis won't happen. :( As you can likely tell, avoidance is a huge problem for me but one of my biggest challenges is that it's been so many years and this last 1.5 years have probably been the worst. It feels like I'm falling apart. Why can't I keep it together like I have for so long? The challenge of being able to soldier on by yourself for so long....