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I'm glad it is working out for you. Since I couldn't afford to be a professional college student, I found that teaching at the college is just as much fun as taking the classes, if not more so! I "belong in college" just like you do!

Welcome. Please allow me to say that you are very brave in sharing your story.

I am inclined to agree with your husband as far as your history class is concerned. Like I said, I always give a disclaimer and I encourage my colleagues to do the same. Most don't though. If you are showing video clips, for example, of combat footage from WW2 or Vietnam and you have veterans...

I always tell my students exactly what is going to be in a video clip before I show it in my History Courses. As a PTSD sufferer, I do not want to make another fellow traveler down the PTSD Road upset by something that I may show in class. Every video clip I use is relevant to the material, of...

I was still working as a cop (detective assigned to arson cases) up until this past August. I had to leave due to my back issue deteriorating to the extent that I couldn't do my job safely anymore. Now I am a college professor. (I had a Master's Degree already, so it was an easy transition.)...

Welcome to the forum.

I think of it this way. PTSD will always be with you. However, with proper treatment, support, and a lot of work, it can go into remission for long periods of time. Perhaps forever. I wouldn't say that it can be "cured" so much as it can be managed. I'm not a doctor and I don't pretend to...

I don't know. I guess it depends on what your preferences are. When you are a cop with PTSD, finding a therapist who was a cop is difficult, but not impossible. I actually decided to go to a female therapist since I felt like I would be more comfortable talking to her. Also, she had a son...

I'm chiming in a little bit late here, but I really don't have a sense of belonging anymore and haven't for quite some time.

I live just a outside of Houston. My PTSD is cumulative due to my career in law enforcement. I left that job due to an injury unrelated to PTSD this past summer and I teach at a community college now.

Good luck with your classes! I'm glad to hear that you like history. I teach history at a community college now that my law enforcement days are over. I suffer from PTSD and let me tell you, teaching can be very hard sometimes when you are worried about having a dissociative episode in front...

Some professors are asshats. I know. I am one. I also suffer from PTSD from my previous career as a firefighter and then a police officer. I did not leave that line of work voluntarily. A back injury caused me to have to leave. Since I picked up a Masters in History while working as a cop...

Welcome. I know that because of my PTSD, chronic and severe at times, I've put my little redhead through hell. At first it was hard for her to know what to say or do and because of my frustrations with what was going on inside my head, she experience the brunt of a lot of my anger. She...

My wife and I have five cats. They are life savers. I am very close to two of them since I got them after my first wife and I divorced. It was just the three of us for a while. (They aren't big fans of my wife!) Anyway, when I am having one of those endless PTSD nights where sleep is...

PTSD has more or less caused me to lose most of my family (including my parents). They tend to say the types of things that you listed above. Of course, they never understood why I went into law enforcement in the first place and so there is a certain "I told you so" element in play as well...

Thanks for sharing the link. It looks very interesting. I had not seen this before.

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Same to you, Laura. I've had a rough couple of weeks (okay, months) myself. I had a therapist appointment for tomorrow but I had to cancel it because I've had a significant flare up with my back pain that has taken the wind out of my sails physically. I should be working on a lecture for...

Mac, I'm a fellow police officer, or at least was until three months ago. And I, like you, experience many of the same issues. I left due to a back condition and though I've had PTSD for quite some time, it didn't really kick in bad until I handed in my badge for good. I will second what...

Welcome, I can completely understand the trouble concentrating. I struggle with that myself. As far as the difficulty driving, well that sounds understandable given what you have been through. Truly horrific and you have my sympathies. Coming here is a positive step. There is no shame in...

Thanks Tampa and Medic. You know Tampa, I can relate to always being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When I was a firefighter/emt, I was known as being a sh!t magnet. Whenever I was working, we were guaranteed to get lots of trauma calls (house fires to shootings....sometimes in the...

When I was working, I dealt with everyone one case at a time or one call at a time. I'd have something that might bother me and give me nightmares for a couple of months, but it would pass eventually. (Usually to be replaced with something else more recent.) But literally about two weeks...

I know I am chiming in late here, but about a week ago I went to my pain management doctor that I see for my degenerative disc disease. Though I have been seeing him for almost six months now, I think he just finally got around to looking at everything in my chart. He must have seen where I...

I use to take pride in my memory. I spent the latter half of my law enforcement career as a detective. I could memorize whole case files and quote witness statements verbatim. Defense Attorneys would try to trip me up with small detail questions on the stand and never succeeded. I could read...

I have to get up at 530 every morning. My night normally runs like this: In bed at 8 and try to read or mess around on the internet, lights out at 9, lay in the dark until 1130 or 12 which is usually when I manage to fall asleep. Wake up around 0230.....usually due to a nightmare. Back to...