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    Chill Out - What Do You Do For Relaxation?

    being out and about in the open is good, though i also spend a lot of time in the workshop restoring all sorts of odds n sods, at the moment working on a bsa bantam motorcycle from the 50s, keeps me busy and lets me think about nothing or let my hands work and leave the brain to do its own thing...
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    Combat Stress And Panic Attacks

    also remember take your time and pace yourself its not an overnight thing, taken a few years for me to get to big crowds, so take it a bit at a time,
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    Combat Stress And Panic Attacks

    ok, simple one to try a bit at a time, walking round the block, its not in a confined space such as a supermarket, has people around and you can easily carry on home if you have trouble, see how you go, then maybe try going into a corner shop when you feel it, then move slowly along,trying...
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    Political Correctness - How Does It Affect Your Country or Locale?

    it is getting to a ridiculous degree, have had fun with it though, apparently im now a pc term, apparently im a mental thinking process and presentation impaired socially challenged student, where does it end? any body calls me one of them and theyre more likely to get told to bog off than if...
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    News Female Veterans In The USA

    i dont think the full story on this will come out for a few years yet. this is a brief article in depth,but lots of words. Source: Yahoo News
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    I Knew I Should Have Stayed Home

    in life there are times when you do wonder about these things, i have come to the point where i dont deal with people who are shallow and really are only there to take and see what they can get and mock, one of my brothers is the biggest lying stealing cheating sob's around cant be bothered with...
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    I See Healing! I See It Happening...

    good stuuf, your on your way, long way to go yet but you have done what is needed and can see the difference starting to happen, hopefully it will keep on happening and you will over time keep looking back and seeing the improvements get bigger
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    Nugget V The Train Part 5

    lol, met a few people like that on buses, sometimes its a bit freaky
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    My Motorbike Accident

    ok trying to get picture of how it looked a few months ago on, so bear with me.
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    My Motorbike Accident

    sounds like you have found a good bike for you, everybody has their own ideals in a machine and what they like about them, what you can hope for is finding the one which you are after, sounds like you have found what you are after which is good, ive played with jap bikes and im too slow to react...
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    My Motorbike Accident

    the old bikes a good way to chill and see where your going, not going full speed everywhere has some benefits, it handles well and is fun to ride, also i can catch myself if i drift off a bit, its more forgiving in handling than a snappy race bike, everybody seems to be going from a to b as...
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    My Motorbike Accident

    lol, i have a true archaic bike then, a 1943 royal enfield 350, its green goes up to 58mph and is fun to ride, they dont call em thumpers for nothing, they rattle you about a bit at times, but have a factor 90 grin to em.
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    My Motorbike Accident

    couldnt see pics, its horrid when that sort of thing happens, your left with bits of metal that were once a nice bike, insurance devils and lawyers muttering about not paying for anything because it rained last wednesday in alaska and a fisherman got wet or some such subclause and you feel like...
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    Favorite Song Lyrics

    was particularly out of it, when i met up with a couple of mad irish friends with the thickest dublin accent in the world, the sound of them singing is unrepeatable but the song is an old one, ands quite a funky tune :smoking: war hoo yeah what is it good for, absolutely nothing,
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    Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - Can Anyone Help?

    disability living allowance? get the psych to say you have it, get the forms and fill them in, remember they are looking for reasons for why you cant work and also looking at reasons why you have a disability, at the same time i would suggest income support as well, there is a medical interview...
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    Other Way Round? Dealing With Others Who Have Problems

    i know i can only listen and be there, its just a pain having to deal with my own problems,and then deal with feeling bad after suddenly being dropped for no reason,i dont bounce back, then having to make room and deal with it, waiting to see what happens, i have an idea about what it is, just i...
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    Other Way Round? Dealing With Others Who Have Problems

    over the years i have learnt to look at issues that are causing me problems to look at them and deal with them and take the pain that comes with it, i have learnt that things dont get better if you run or hide from them that they just stay there, i have been in some bad relationships in the past...
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    What Bad Shit Have You Done - Daily, As it Comes To You, Your Past, Lets Be Honest

    im currently a vaguely respectable member of society,doing fairly well, gotme act together and studying at university to be a proffessional archaeologist. the past is something that haunts me on cold lonely nights, a phrase stuck in my mind somewhere which saw me through, survive to fight...
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    Sleeping Problems with PTSD

    a non drug related sleeping aid, warm milk, or warm milk with chocolate powderin, simple but can help.
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    Physical Health - Long Term Affects of PTSD on Physical Attributes

    with things going on over the years i havent at times paid the most attention to physical health so now im reasonably stable im finding things have caught up with me. drinking smoking and generally leading an unhealthy life style. a lot of people with mental health problems tend to ignore a...
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    It's Official - Now Diagnosed with PTSD! Now What?

    you now have an answer and an end to what has gone before, see it as a point from which things begin, a point where you move forward and try to deal with the things which haunt you and although not the easy option it is the better option.
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    Feeling Good With PTSD - Its Not Just A Fantasy

    learn to think positive and overcome negative thinking, feeling good is not only possible but also something which with time you can feel more of, theres the thing where you go round manically cheery just before dropping again but that isnt it, when you do get the good days enjoy them, dont look...
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    In The News - Higher Rates of PTSD in Reservists

    in the news the mod carried out a comparison study between regular troops and reserve or Territorial Army troops who are called up from a part time reserve force, with the situation in the past few years it has been easier to call up reserves and part time TA soldiers thane expand the regulars...
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    List Your Joke, Funny Caption To Brighten Ptsd

    out of the water. The lifeguard told the mother to make her young son stop urinating in the pool. everyone knows, the mother lectured him, that from time to time, young children will urinate in a pool. oh really? said the lifeguard, from the diving board !?!?
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    Oh Goody! Spammers Have Arrived Here

    according to my inbox over the past year i have been offered everything from breast enlargements, various drugs, new septic tanks, and have had e mails from at least 8 single young women claiiming to be orphans of some african general with millions of dollars, not to mention all the other...
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