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Got behind a steering wheel after 6 months of extreme hypervigilance crippled my ability to drive. Okay, I wasn't alone with my wife in the passenger seat and dog just behind me. My dog is my talisman, as she always knows when I'm approaching a crisis, calms me down, and wakes me me when I go...

It's tough for both of us. I have had a vicious resurgence of PTSD after 38 years of coping with it. Only with this one, nothing works. All my strategies I used don't work today and, as above, I feel terrible for upsetting my wife. I KNOW I AM TOXIC, but won't leave my wife under any...

I'm afraid to admit that no. Calm under stress doesn't live here anymore. When things go wrong, I have to decide if it's me doing something stupid or someone else. If it is someone else, I usually lose it.

UK PTSD sufferer. Has anyone had any success with the NHS OP. Courage treatment path? Or are you still waiting after you joined the initial wait list to be put on the next wait list for the therapy team?

Thank you for your thoughts. The worse bit about it is I spent a good slice of my adult life in close protection. BUT, it was in combat that my PTSD started. Now retired, my long suffering wife says I will never change as I am always looking for "what's not right with this picture" and still...

That's a sensitive subject for me especially as when I wrote out a statement it was typed up by clerical staff. One of whom I knew. Imagine my wife learning from her what I couldn't speak to her about. Bottom line, I had to pursue the breach the confidentiality and she was fired. Only my wife...

From the get-go, this isn't a poor little me post as I don't do that, I just get ANGRY. 6 months ago PTSD got the better of me BIG TIME after 38 years of me coping. So, after a lot of pushing from SWMBO, I reluctantly asked for help. A flurry of phone calls, video chats, and a shrinks face to...

Thank you for this reply. Chuckle. Didn't know Wiki was around in the 80's. Way I figured it was the French Docs weren't anything to do with the UK health service so they would know what they were talking about. That and my ex- legionnaire bud knew exactly what I was talking about (then he...

I get it. I'd never heard of Mal De Guerre before I acquired it. So, "Illness of War" sounded fair to me (with my scrambled head and all). Then this new fangled PTSD came out and suddenly everyone had it. From babies to woke politicians (spits on the floor) and even some seriously weak guy...

And hello to you too.

Too much "graffic"media coverage was the major trigger for my latest relapse into full on PTSD. The pictures of civilian deaths in Ukraine awoke a lot of old memories from another place and flashbacks plus nightmares was the result. To that I add Hypervigilance and I now live in perminent Amber...

Hi arfie. Mal de Guerre was the label they gave what ailed me in France. You are right. Translated it is 'A sickness of war', now given the cute acronym PTSD. Which made me chuckle shortly after I was told I had "PTSD" and not Mal de guerre or combat stress. That's because a friend (who also...

Sorry to read this post. We as a couple are still together but the stress my poor wife is under is immense as she copes with my moods. If your hubby can be persuaded to see a therapist DO IT NOW! Just in case he goes walkabout in his confused state.

So I was coping well until this year when it returned with a vengence. Nightmares, flashbacks, living in Amber, and not nice. Worse still, my little coping tricks don't work anymore. What's changed? I got old.