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Interesting, maybe???? I am an American Combat Badge awarded Soldier, so I have been in more than likely the number one stressful environment possible. Why do I say 'More than Likely?' The only other person who could ever achieve our equivalence in stress is that victim of murder just before...

her context is that of a civilian. As a soldier we were trained to sacrifice ourselves for others first. We never thought about self. My wife has had absolutely no exposure to military in her life until she met me, so bills are a low priority. The ideology being, "I will pay them when I can."...

Here is the issue with this particular topic --> "This is what's wrong with the U.s." Whether you are a Combat Veteran (danced with the Devil), A Theater Veteran (U made it to country but never Outside the Wire - OTW), or a garrison Veteran that never saw Theater or Combat. The point of what...

Mr. Spock and Mr. Sleeping Dragon. I completely understand where both of you are coming from. However, both of you are asking me to act as an individual and adapt life to my disability. PTSD is not my disability. It is the price I have paid to be called a Combat Veteran. It is not something that...

I am he accountant, and I track everything except her. :-)

I am an Iraq Combat Vet and this is what I have learned: As a soldier we are trained to take all are fear and 'suck it up and drive on,' or 'swallow it and continue mission.' We all have heard similar motivational statements. With each branch or MOS the sayings differ, but they all say the...

BACKSTORY: When I came home from Iraq for the final time my wife felt it was a better idea to leave rather than help. During the next five years I pulled double duty: dealing with trying to become a civilian while keeping soldier me under-raps, and at the same time taking care of my wife from a...

Thank You Ned and Jimmy and Zipperhead and Anglesache. Do not tink tht I do not read or react to what you say. I would not respond otherwise. It is beyond words the meaning of taking time to reply and I dont know wha tto say other then thank you. I wish I was capable of being more grateful...

Its hard guys. I go from happy one day to being tore up the next to being angry. I mean how do you traverse that? How do you get control out of chaos? Iknow that talking about things helps but in the end I am the one that has to do it and it just seems like every time I try I lose. I understand...

Hey, I gotta go. Keep doing what you do. It is a blessing beyond words to those who you touch. But, As in all that I do I dont know the words nor will the help come otherwise. As they say, help those that you can and hope for the rest, but in truth. Just be there, and you are. Do what you do, it...

Hey, what you do here is unbelievable. Do not quit, please do not quit. I am just not worthy of being in the same realm. I have the CAB but that is different then the CIB. You all take care.

I have learned that there is a difference between someone who is winnie and someone who is actually looking for help and then there is the -gray line- ... I have my moments. The reality of all that I am dealing with is that I truly do not know which way to go with all of this. I do not have a...

The thing that I have noticed is that I talk about my wife a lot, and I d because of how much she means to me. However, I have noticed that I have never talked about what actually happened while I was over ther and after reading mush of the post here I find that there is a certain level of...

Whne I went to the VA back in March is was because the Suicide Prevention center in New Jersey got the email I had sent to the VA. I had been looking for help and I just wrote anybody I could. So, in the process of doing that one of my emails got sent to this guy in New Jersey who contacted the...

The question is how is it that someone can go from being able to dress right dress and know the right from the wrong and life just flows like it should to someone that cannot even remeber to pay bills on time? Makes good money but is always broke? and cannot seem to do anything that is right...

My dad tells me the same thing as well as friends. I will continue to be a nuisance, but the thing that is driving me crazy is that everyday I ponder just letting go of everything. My wife knows what "Going North" means. She hates whenever I talk about it and she tells me that if I do she will...

Well, I cannot say what it is that motivated me to search out a forum, but I have a habit of doing things without knowing why I do them of late. I have learned that I cannot come back and add to my post so I guess that I have to tell it all in one shot. I do not know if I can do that, but can...

Yes they are combat related, but my post was incomplete cause I am not sure if I am ready to share any of it. Do not really know what I want at the moment except to now what a good nights sleep is??? Funny, how the little things matter more then we know...

Thank You Amethist (ironic my birth stone with a spelling twist). I really dont know what I want at this point or even where to go. Am rather in a fishing mindset, and a talkative one too. I cannot keep all this inside but then again I dont want to talk to anyone about it either. It is a kind of...

It has been two years since I got back. The adventure has been interesting at its worst, and devistating at its best. I cannot say whether I did the things that I did on purpose or unknowingly, but I do know that I did them. The hard part about all of it is that I seem to have very little...