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Hello all - I've wondered about posting in this section for a few months now but I kept thinking this phase would pass. We lost my dad in June. He wasn't poorly - or at least he didn't know he was. He was 69 and was due to retire in 10 weeks on his 70th birthday in September. The thing is, it...

Ok, so my last year's new year's resolution was to celebrate the holidays. Christmas is going to be a bit of a bummer this year but I still love Halloween. I've already planned to make Pumpkin Chilli and bought pumpkin fairy lights! :p What I need now is a movie. I don't want a horror movie or...

Ok, so my new year's resolution was to make the most of celebrations... and in the UK it's Pancake Day on Tuesday. It was saying on the television this morning that the US doesn't have a pancake day - but I know you have pancakes, so... Ideas please!!!! Ideally I'd like to do a starter...

I really wasn't sure what to call this Thread, so I'll explain my morning this morning and then see... I have X number of things to do on a morning as does Husband. He gets up 10 minutes earlier, feeds the dogs and makes the packed lunches. I come down, have a coffee with him and walk the dog...

This could be an odd - and possibly long - post! For over a month now I have been having trouble with my back, and had pain somewhere around my shoulder blades. It started the week before we were supposed to be on holiday - I know I was slumping over my desk at work. I was tired and so looking...

I made a resolution last year that this year I wasn't going to let things pass me by, so with Halloween coming up... does anyone have a good pumpkin pie recipe? It's not something that we usually see in the UK - I only just discovered that you can get pumpkin in a tin (can)!!! My oven isn't up...

Good morning! I know that this has been mentioned in passing on a few occassions - that stress can cause stomach problems - but I'm just wondering if anyone's OH has ever had an actual diagnosis for anything or any treatment? Husband, every so often, will get a ridiculously rumbly tummy - so...

I posted in my diary a while ago that Husband sees things in the night. He apparently did so quite regularly in our old home - he used to see "the people he couldn't save" standing in the corner of the bedroom at night. He said they would talk but he either couldn't understand them or couldn't...

I was just wondering how many people read their horoscopes? I don't as a rule, but tend to find that I read them obsessively when there's uncertainty in life. I just got this for tomorrow: Today, very little is as it seems! Something that you've been counting on, or more likely hoping for...

I'm hoping it's okay to put this in here... Has anyone got a daylight alarm clock - the ones that simulate the rising sun and wake you up gently? I'm having real trouble this year gauging what time it is when I wake up on a morning - I seem to think it's 7am when it's 1am and 1am when it's...

Erm, I've just had a funny do and I'm not sure if it was the onset of a panic attack or not...? I've had palpitations for a while, combined with shaking hands. This time though I also felt queasy and very dizzy as though I was going to pass out. I also felt a swelling in my chest as if it...

Has anyone else experienced palpitations? I started yesterday with a sort of fluttering between my ribs - where they seem to meet in the middle. Sorry - anatomy is not my strong point, but it's just under where my bra goes!!! It started yesterday afternoon, and carried on in to the early...

Reading a few "Goal for the Day" and Long Term Goal" postings, I suddenly realised that I don't really have any :wideeyed:. Well, I have a few, but they just seem to get squashed by the PTSD Monster :sorry:. So I was wondering what it is that keeps Supporters going? I don't mean things like a...

After the recent thread on lovely long hair, I thought I'd start a thread for all us shorties! I won't be posting a piccie of myself as I'm looking a bit more Claire Balding that Emma Watson at the moment!!! But here are two of the people who inspired me the most to have my hair chopped...

I had an email this morning from something called The White Wall - I signed up for it a few weeks ago but haven't really looked at the website. This morning the email had a link to a UK Army campaign called Don't Bottle it Up. I thought it might help, so clicked on the link... I got to the...

I'm not 100% sure that I even have the right word(s) for this so will give the example I have just been faced with... I walk in from work, it's a lovely sunny day and the first thing Husband says as I walk through the door is "I've just had a ****ing row with some ****ing bloke who thinks he...

I was just wondering, for those of you who's Sufferers are lucky enough (I think!) to have a job in these "interesting times", what do they do; and have they had a career change due to PTSD - voluntarily or enforced? I'll elaborate... Husband did 22 years in the Army, then came out and...

Well, we decided that if we didn't get away for a few days then we would explode - through personal and work stress... so we booked in for three nights at Centre Parcs in the Lake District and paid not a small amount to spend three days in the Spa there - three days of sheer pampered bliss... :)...

Can anyone else identify with this? We went to see Husband's family on Friday night, it was his niece's 18th birthday and we went up there as a surprise and met them in a pub for quiet drinks. So - Husband-the-perfect appeared. Smiley, laughing, chatty, life a soul of the party, happy, NICE...

I'm getting quite worried about Husband. Despite the PTSD he has always been one of life's optimists - either that or he actually is Teflon coated and he lets things slide off his back and isn't one to dwell on them. Since Christmas though this has all started to change. I've watched him get...

Husband's sleep has been very disturbed since just before Christmas - it started out with simple quilt-stealing, which I would imagine most couple have to deal with ;) but this was more like him turning it in to a sleeping bag and leaving me with NO quilt what-so-ever! I'd pull it back, only to...

Hello - I wasn't sure what catagory to put this in... but I suppose Self Management could cover it! I started with some really bad headaches over Christmas, in fact they started on Christmas Eve. I didn't have one on Christmas Day (nice relaxed day with my parents) but they started again on...

I'm not sure I'm going to explain this very well, but I was wondering if anyone's sufferer had "other" physical symptoms with their PTSD? I don't mean things like twitching and sweating, those are obviously all part and parcel of what is going on. Husband is becoming increasingly clumsy and I...

Right, I'm going to lay my cards on the table, my heart on the line etc etc and then not log on again for a week in embarrassment - but I have no one else to ask, so please excuse me. Before I start, if this is too "off" and Admin wish to delete it or edit it I will understand. I was going to...

I think I need help! I had a bit of a melt down last night and ended up shouting at Husband - I couldn't help it, it was as if a red mist had descended and I shouted, then I felt so awful that I spent most of the rest of the evening in floods of tears. He works for himself and it started with...