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its a sunny day no too hot had a walk down the road sat on a bench lit a cigarette and , zap, zoned out completely, wasnt even aware that a friend of mine was stood there waving in front of me asking if anybody was in, dang thing just snuck up on me no warning no nothing, just beep end of...

ok a better one i promise. translation A company was producing an english-language movie. In one scene, an exhausted messenger was suppose to dash in, collapse and gasp out a vital message in swahili. The company even found someone who knew the language. The scene worked beautifully in...

two goldfish in a tank one turns to the other and says how do you drive this thing? allright bad joke :wall:

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this place is a good place to talk and listen, listen to what others have to say and what has happened, to get advice and hopefully say something useful which will help others, it is good that it exists and hopefully will be a good place for people to come who need it.

key words and phrases which repeat themselves and are negative, look at what phrases and words you keep telling yourself, and when you see yourself repeating the negativities try changing the thought pattern, it can become like a groove in a record repeating itself at times, so take, for example...

i have it written down somewhere, its a interesting line,useful to remember on a bad night,goes along the lines of, the darkest time is before dawn, night brings with it the bitterest poisons which build up to a crescendo til they dispel with the coming of dawn and the rising of the sun...

loosing time can be a problem, its a sign of the mind sort of switching off, used to just sit there and stare at somewhere else, not here not there just elsewhere, lost a lot of time like that, dogs are good for bringing you out of it , go for a walk and you get to keep in this world while at...

ok in the interests of international relations here are a few common words that change depending on where you are. cant remember many at the moment but heres a few. petrol station - garage - service station - servo packet of cigarettes - pack of fags - ciggy - smokes feel free to add...

lol, ok local saying, something bad happens, could be referred to as a big pile of poo, or a big pile of s;it fell out the sky and landed on me, or the old favourite sh;t happens. with many variations on the theme, lol, could have phrased last post better having re read it, could be taken i...

chocolate is good but you cant live off it, even the longest rollercoaster ride ends sometime, jumping just means you fall, days come and days go, try and eatwell , if not try vitamin tablets they help for a while.

Being terribly horribly traumatised then they will of course have to sue for large quantities of money which of course will have a split going to the docs for certifying the case. Am I being cynical? In sports you fall down you get up, you twist your ankle then take a few weeks off get better...

found a good point about all the poo ive been through over the years, the demons that have tormented me for years have left me a bit of a tough old boot at times, so when a pile of poo fell on me i didnt even blink, doesnt even match up to the pains and visions i have dealt with for years, so...

it brought back memories for me , taken me 15 years to get round to looking at them properly, time was right for me to look back, somehow seeing them again after so long, strangely helped, to look at something so long ago and realise it was, been thinking , strange but it helped me look again at...

today i looked up images from the areas i was in during the first gulf, seeing the old places and reading about a million people on the move, looking at pictures of endless starlifters, of armoured columns of parades of 10k+ it all somehow seems strangely unreal on a scale hard to picture like a...

have been looking for material for a while and havent turned up much on the va, but have found some interesting stuff going on in america, the veterans returning from the gulf are being helped by the vietnam veterans association, so anyone in the us looking for help may want to ask them , there...

dont worry too much about diagnosis, it is good in the sense that yes you now know it officially, which is better than wondering at times,also has the advantage of allowing you if neccesary to claim a range of benefits including income support, disability living allowance and various other...

long term sleep cycles, over the years have noticed in myself longterm sleep cycles, in febuary i cant sleep till daybreak and sleep is irregular from sep-dec, this is due to events in the gulf and adaptation my body has made over the years, at night i was on alert monitoring for gas and keeping...

used to live in the gulf and was out there in 90/91, was a bit screwed up but not too bad then gulf 2 came long and thoroughly flipped me past any sense of an edge, conflicts can end and be buried in the annals of history just for the same thing to happen again a few years later, for me it was...

im not in the best of condition meself at mo, but will try and get something down, what you feeling is ''normal'' returned from active zone to city life, you get used to looking for bad things and watching all the time, its almost impossible to stop at first keep checking high points and looking...

will see if i can find it again, but it is an article on how a va nurse was charged with subversion she only briefly touched on her work, will see what i can find.

found a case where a us veterans affairs nurse wrote a letter to a newspaper about george bush and got arrested for subversion although interesting thats not what struck me, it was something else she mentioned, with the recent conflict in iraq the va saw an unprecedented surge of new cases of...

been thinking on your question, shock, it depends on what type, it can seem a withdrawl the world moving around in a strange almost sickly way, sometimes pivoting, possibly interjected with sudden what seem like fast time clips from the world around, numbing softness, or can go the other way...

sorry ive been away a while,if you come over try and make it in the summer its warmer and dryer, news is a pain, keep looking at the newspapers every now and then and they get me muttering quite a bit at times, am going very well at moment, a few years ago i was the other side of gone, nobody...

archaeology is relatively stress free, an archaeology degree means you can work in most heritage/museum/excavation fields, there are fewer stuffed shirts than most proffession and most archaeologists look like scruffy beggars but half of them have phds,you can work anywhere in any country as...