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When I get really tired from not getting enough sleep, I get agitated, short tempered and grumpy, and can't concentrate on anything? Yet when I get, what I call PTSD tiredness, it's different, it's more like feeling latheric,/ slower and apathetic towards everything, and just be bothered to do...

Being out in the sun all day, working in the garden, then watching the swallows fly around. They are so relaxing to watch, especially if it's windy as they are so agile, and fast, really fast, I can spend ages just watching them. They will soon be leaving, and making their 2000 mile flight...

Aye! there are times when I feel quite content living alone, as you say, less stress, no worries, no forgotten birthdays and the like, but then there are occasions when it does get me down? I think the biggest difference it was for me, was that I wasn't responsible for anyone any more, after...

I never knew that it was possible to fake having PTSD, I mean, how can it be done? Is it even possible? I think it wouldn't be possible , but then I'm kind of out of touch with such things? I do know that when I was told I had it, I didn't really understand what they were saying, but I was glad...

I'm not a good passenger in a car either, especially if I have no confidence of the drivers capabilities as a driver? I've been driving now for over forty years, and have done a few driving tests over the years. I did the advanced driving test back in 1986, as I was young, and had a sporty car...

I can't remember the last time I slept through a whole night? But I look forward that happening at sometime in the future!

I was burning the rotten flashings that I removed from the garden shed today, and as I sat and watched the flames, I got this nice glowing feeling inside of me, it was like watching all my health and mental problems, just float away in with the smoke, as it spiralled upwards into the sky. It...

Well done Trev, you managed all that on your own, that's some achievement! I wish I could have diagnosed what my problem was, as at one point I thought that I was actually going mad! I had never heard of PTSD, never even knew what it was, then after a year of drifting through the nightmare...

Yea! I get Ike that as well, get very short tempered and easily frustrated, argue with myself as well. Like today, I was OK during the day, but when it gets dark, that's when I'm at my worst. Right now, I feel totally zoned out, lonely and really tired, tired of everything!

I thought like that a few months ago, but believe me there will come a time when you look back on that, and realise just how wrong you were. I'm not just saying that, after my wife passed I was a wreck, even though we knew it was coming. But I when I got to rock bottom, I remembered the days...

Aye! that's exactly you I feel, when I've got something on my mind, or have a bad day, I keep myself busy and by doing that I keep my mind and body occupied, it's always worked for me. Mind you, that doesn't work on the days when my back is bad, then I can't do anything at all, as I'm not able...

There I was at peace with the world, painting away on the summer house, enjoying the sun, feeling really relaxed, then the neighbours dogs started barking, which set off the dogs on the other side of my house, so I had them in stereo! If folk insist on having dogs, why don't they make an effort...

Well I beat the tiredness thing today, and even got half the summer house painted! I made the best of the good weather and managed to spend the whole day outside, in the sun.

Aye! but I think thenerd0854 is going to come out of this even stronger, going by what I read in their post, showing a good positive attitude!

Aye! Stickler, it's been almost two years for me now, and I still can't get used to living alone. I don't feel like that all the time, but when it does hit me, and hits me hard! I think if I made the effort to go out and meet other people, that might help. But with my confidence totally...

Quote....."My dad even went so far as to say"your issue is with your dead mom, maybe your therapist is failing you by not having you deal with your issues with her." That was not a nice thing to say to you, it sounds like your Dad has placed his new partner to number one, and hasn't made the...

Hi Snowflake, I'm still here, and getting better at "connecting with people" well, not so scared of going out of the house that is, and being amongst other folk. Hope you are as well, it's an achievement no matter how small, hang in there.

Ah! no problem about your post, I never even thought if it that way. I must admit I am gaining confidence about going out now, to places like stores and shops where I am surrounded by other people. A year ago I used to be get so scared about going out that I used to be physically sick? So I am...

DharmaGirl, I wish I couldn't remember my nightmares, but the fact that they are all "retakes" of events that I've gone through at some time in my life, makes that impossible? Silver, you said,......"Why always bring it up, it's there. (my thinking)" Thats true, but in my case, I'm never in...

Quote........"I was singing away, complete with arm movements, and a nurse came over and gave me pain meds. She must have laughed about that." I had to smile when I read that, as when my late wife woke up after treatment, she was singing and clapping, in fact she had whole ward joining in. The...