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    What To Never Say To A Ptsd Sufferer

    You have an education now you want disability? What a waste. Chicken Sh#t? Weirdo? Postal?
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    What To Never Say To A Ptsd Sufferer

    You don't have PTSD from that little surgery or that little scar. Or should I remind you 5 scars and one in the arm from the IV. Your stupid, find work so I can screw up again. Someone you knew grew up with you and he doesn't remember no surgery.
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    Differences Between Combat And Abuse Related Ptsd

    I would like to know the differences between combat vs abusers vs medical. Even though, I'm new to PTSD and I had it for 43 years. The combat seems to be more aggressive towards fear, a person that was abused is more passive, and the medical is more helpless because we can't control the...
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    I Dont Know How To Say This

    It's surprising that you remind me of me when I was your age. At that time in the 1990's, PTSD was not a garden variety acronym. I'm old and recently been diagnosis with PTSD and I may have autism and social isolation. You may be a step ahead of me of knowing you have a disease and accept it...
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    Suicidal Ideation - Will It Ever End?

    I've been there several times. I just went thru it burned some pictures or degrees. You like music, it helps me, driving a car also clears my mind. I like to be myself because people I can't trust.
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    Ptsd/therapy, And Re-employment After Termination.

    Employment lawyer that specializes in mental and physical conditions. Very liberal will work.
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    Private Investigators

    I think the question is how can I be afraid of the dark yet I have the guts to do something but no violence just minor auto damage. I guess robin hood to me is personal justice when the police aren't on your side. I'm just wonder how I can do crazy stuff and be afraid of everything. But then I...
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    Private Investigators

    I worked at a big computer company 10 years ago. My co-workers and boss ganged up on me and bullied me, and one worker called me a name. To make a very long story short, I got fired and private investigators went and followed me and tail gated me to get me angry. I, of course, in my mental...
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    Poll Does Your Anxiety Result In You Avoiding Public Restrooms?

    I don't have that problem due to a gallbladder issue, and I have to use the bathroom now or forced to. But when I was younger I couldn't use the bathroom if someone else is in the bathroom. So at work and school, I would know where all the bathrooms where and if someone was there just go to the...
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    Fearful And Fearless

    I'm relatively new to PTSD but I've had it for a long time and I didn't know it. I'm afraid of many things such as hospital where I recently broke my ribs and didn't want to go to the hospital because it's the place that gave me my initial trauma. I'm an old man and I'm still kind of afraid of...
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    Can't Get Rid Of Distressing Dreams

    When I was a kid and I was going through the nightmare phase. I would have the same kind of dreams and I tried to stop them. What happens to me, I started to have uncontrollable daydreams that I couldn't get out of my head. Interesting, there are so many people like me in this forum.
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    First Therapy Appt.

    My first appointment was 2 weeks ago and I'm 47. She recommended Social Security Disability and I'm like, I'm I that messed up. Flush many years down the drain. But I was relieved to talk to someone about all this.
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    What To Never Say To A Ptsd Sufferer

    1) There is nothing wrong with you, it's the drugs you take. 2) You have no learning disability, it's shyness. 3) You have nothing to blame but yourself. 4) Old me never thought about those horrible things. 5) Quit using PTSD as an excuse.
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    Poll What Are Your Beliefs About God / Higher Power?

    I'm an atheist. When I was young those nightmare about religious superstitions destroyed me and sometime made me believe. And then you find out you have less than nothing and a curse like PTSD, and where's GOD. There was never no answer to my prayers.
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    Other Own Moral Code

    I've only recently noticed that I fit in the PTSD group. I had a serious medical problem at 4 year old with several trauma incidents. When I was 5 years old, I had problems sleeping with nightmares and severe fear of the dark. I never cried to my parents about any of this, I don't know if I...
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    Poll Do You Have Difficulty Reading with PTSD?

    I got PTSD at a young age and I believe I got AD from it because I was in special ed all my young school life. When I read, I also got anxiety and I had a hard time concentrating on reading. This may have caused my bad grades in college and results in depression. I got sick think about suicide...
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    Self Fulfilling Prophecy

    I haven't been diagnosed with PTSD but I recently been aware of my disease. I tried to hang myself around 1 ago, because I always knew I was going to fail and saw me been hung on a tree or roof. When I was 5 my brother and his friend tried to hang me, and then around 8 I boy named Robert tried...
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    Undiagnosed New For Ptsd

    For 43 years I've been different and out of place. I thought I would die young by suicide or an other cause. I've had difficulties with several careers and relationship as well as substance abuse. I've always been a loner and never interested in nothing. My trauma started when I was 4 and my...
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