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Anyone else out there lurking? Seems to be a lot going on at this site. Kinda intimidating.... Lot...
Good luck to you. Thanks for checking in. Shalom!If you don't hear me for quite a while, you'll know they got to me. :hungover:
I have always understood why we had a combat sister forum: the specific nature of military trauma and its shockwaves paired with the apparent camaraderie of its sufferers--far beyond what other trauma categories seem to have between themselves--seemed to justify its own space. However, I'm very happy to see the combat site members here, and I think there may be some unexpected benefits to interacting with a wider spectrum of trauma survivors/PTSD sufferers (not to mention this forum has some pretty cool features).The thought of my wife or others knowing details of my combat/deployed experiences makes me sick to my stomache.
I don't want to hijack the thread either, but I wanted to mention that there are a lot of people who got here by other routes and feel the same way. Somehow that "stuff that happened" seems to have too much power and is seems like you have to protect other people from it. Sometimes that's true. Sometimes maybe it's not.The thought of my wife or others knowing details of my combat/deployed experiences makes me sick to my stomache.
Just dropping another couple cents in the jar here, but I was thinking that maybe there could be a private military forum the way there was once a private supporter forum. However, the idea of private forums for other trauma groups (CSA, rape, natural disasters etc.) seems totally silly to me, because we all cope with the same basic symptom sets, and our membership is just too invaluable a whole to start stratifying into trauma types (especially since many of us have a mosaic of traumatic experiences). Looked at through that lens, I wonder if it wouldn't be somewhat counter productive to create a C-PTSD-only forum. Do I love talking in public forum space about the darkest facets of my trauma as a CSA incest survivor? Not really. Is it intensely uncomfortable sometimes? Totally. Is it good for me to air out my shit, sit with that uncomfortability, and realize that it's okay--that people here are compassionate and smart and helpful in response to my darkest thoughts? I think it is.it would be nice if there were "secure groups" within this site, and that way at 1 forum could be dedicated to members of that secure group only. non only military, but some of the other trauma related groups.