Search results

Obviously not. Here is my two cents - mostly people act on the stories they carry around in their heads. If it is a story everyone tells themselves, then the expectations of a community are shaped to respond to them. In some sense, the stories a community's members tell themselves ARE the...

I actually knew that, and somehow thought that you had to be symptomatic for at least 6 months for it to "count" as combat PTSD. If it resolves within the six month window they tend to just call it PTS. I was starting the "clock" for Kyle after his I don't know, second or third deployment when...

Story. Of. My. Life. I get a question, I'm a bulldog - I worry it until it is good and dead.

Trying to be clear: what "it" are you referring to? My original post was not at all clear. Do you mean: Some people come back from tours of duty and end up fine? or Full blown PTSD just resolves on its own sometimes? I meant the latter.

I am actually quite hopeless at schedules but THIS!!! (Oh OH pick me pick me, I know the answer, pick me!) Since there is no such document, all you need to do is to take an official document and then REDO it into the one you need. Talk someone into stamping it, and then send it off. Easy...

PERFECT!!! You shall be a revelation to her! Just remember, you need not explain yourself to her, or justify or anything like that (Let Mary "Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I never explain anything." Poppins be your guide) It would, however, be polite if you were to give her some...

Well, you can tell them, truthfully, that they can come and go as they please. You can promise to spend the whole first day coming and going. All day. You could promise to come and go at odd hours just to please them. (You might want to warn the homeowner tho, like Scout says..) What else...

Talk those EP's down Shimmerz.... Stay calm, Talk 'em down. Breathe! Ask them what they want in a place...??

Semi-nomadic is better. Best of both worlds. And this spot sounds like it would fit right in. Stay for a few weeks, get the itch, take off for a week or three. Come back, check in, stay, or not. Gypsies are semi nomadic. BWAHAHAHA!!! No, but my phone does. :D

Emails composed upon demand. :) Cut, paste and send.:nailbiting:

And remember Shimmerz, you don't HAVE to stay if it doesn't work out for you. You are not signing yourself in for life. Or even for a month. Try it for two weeks (that is your horizon now anyhow, right?) Just for two weeks. Then see. What are the EP's freaking out about? Specifically. Have...

First let me say that it is a great blessing to be able to help out someone who really benefits from the help. A lot more rare than one imagines it would be. So the very best thing you can do, from my point of view (after you check her and the place out with a critical eye to make sure it is a...

To clarify, I wasn't talking about snipers in particular (I've met two in real life, as you say, a breed apart) and FWIW they get the "incredibly tough" part of SEAL training right, but actually kind of downplay it if you know what SEALS actually do. (Spent a long time in San Diego..) And the...

I have very mixed feelings about this movie. Specifically that it is like, half a movie. Kyle comes back in terrible shape, has one conversation with a shrink where he says, "I'm fine." and starts helping other vets and then all is happiness and normality. Right. Like that happens. "Soft...

My running takes the shape of driving away. I don't any more (much) and I don't drive far. But I play/sing this when I have the urge... It helps. Running is not always a bad thing - as all the responses above make clear. Getting distance, taking control of events. Not bad things. The three...

Congratulations Ms. Spock!!!!! Good work and awesome accomplishment. :tup::tup::tup::tup:

What you describe is, in my terms, almost certainly a world of virtue. I think it would be really interesting. People would do art and music. Ride horses. Play strategy games. Dance. Make their environments and necessities beautiful. People would eat much better. They'd travel. Read books...

Hence the need to look directly at the data. And, in some sense, trust the process, which is the peer review process. The idea is that the truth is one, and so if you know a broad sweep of things, they will, somehow or other, fit together. Drug studies are tough in one way, and easy in another...

All of the above, plus (backing up two steps) Ok, so we read studies because we want to know what is true. We want to know the point at which, "the world pushes back." Studies are just individual attempts to get some aspect of the world to push back. Truth about the world, generally...

Father Emilio Sandez in the novel (first of a trilogy) The Sparrow. Everyone on Blue Bloods SHOULD have PTSD, but inexplicably don't. The Iraq vet son is just kind of neurotic, doesn't actually have PTSD that one can tell.

Like having a beloved uncle die. :cry: The world is a poorer place for his absence. Live long and prosper.

Ok, now, how to get EVERYBODY ON THE PLANET to Watch Those Videos???? And that little boy who hit his mom? That was a learned response in him. He'd done that before. Sad.... Makes me see my interactions with my daughter in a different frame....

YES. Precisely. And, it would be (I'm guessing) really important to know which is which to help. Is there something blocking connection? Or is the connection not very strong to begin with. The difference between needing drain and a plumber to put in a bigger pipe. Important distinction in...

What a happy EP would look like? :DSorry:stop:. Back to discussion.:watching::geek:

Thank you for trusting us with this. it is INCREDIBLY helpful. I know it can be a difficult thing to talk about. My first husband was Asperger's-y - undiagnosed, took me years to figure it out. He is a super guy. My family has strong Aspy threads. PLUS it makes it much easier to figure out what...