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My oldest daughter (26 yo) has a good friend that she's known since high school. Aimee was widowed 2 years ago. Her husband, Jason was killed in Afghanistan, leaving Aimee a very young widow. This left Aimee a single mom, a full time student, and minus her best friend/ husband. It's been a...

I work as a hospice nurse, and have come across many a terminally ill elderly patient in a facility with no family that visits. Nursing homes, hospitals, assisted living facilities... the setting changes, but the scenario is frquently the same. Invariably, some facility staffperson will condemn...

I completely understand this, Ayesha. I'm struggleing with trying to understand my own relationships with my parents. My father is an easier one to define. I see him as the AntiChrist, plain and simple. My relationship with my mother is far more difficult to get a handle on. It's been suggested...

http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/faqs.htm Here's the CDC's take on the question in the US. Seems more strict than the Aussies.

Welcome, Lee. Have you been over to the Combat PTSD forum yet? If not, you should definitely go over there and introduce yourself too. I bet there will be posts there that strike a cord as well. (((HUGS))), and glad to have you aboard.

Awesome! Congratulations, guys! :tup:

Well, he's already back to being listed as "compliant" this morning - I just checked. I have a call out to the officer I spoke with yesterday to find out what happened, but he isn't working today. I'll try again after the weekend. It's a question I've never asked before. In ten years, he's...

Mine is not military related, but I'm 43 and dealing with old trauma. I'm a veteran of PTSD, but a rookie to therapy. Welcome, and know you're not alone.

There may be a better place for this post. If so, please feel free to move it. I discovered yesterday that my father, an Illinois (US) registered sexual predator is now non compliant. As far as I know, this means that the scumbag has decided he's too busy to do the annual check-in with the...

When you have the voice volume on your GPS set all the way up so it'll snap you out of a flashback. When you think that people that can't drive and talk on the phone at the same time are big babies, because YOU can drive while flashbacking. When you have to watch the same TV show 3 times...