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L Lol if only hey? Are they willing to offer an alternative or just want you off altogether? That would be a huge adjustment. My mothers been on some kind of med for 20 years, they just keep upping the dose when she says its not working and have never really worked with her on alternative...

Oh crap. Sorry that posted by itself in me happens all the time. Anyway, apologies for this, especially if its a sore point, but still. Much respect for you and your service @anthony.

Struggle with praise??

I just googled benadryl because I've seen it come up repeatedly, and didn't know what it is. Antihistamine!! Haha. Interesting, I have something here called phenergan that id bought last year for a reaction to an insect bite. Was looking through my meds 6 weeks ago and noticed on the box...

Totally agree about the ANZAC day parade, its all about show now and little to do with respecting current serving members. I dont go to dawn service or anything, the day always causes me to pause and reflect on those I know currently serving, as well as those long gone. I never know what to...

Either or, some nights I will fall sleep easily enough through total exhaustion (usually about day 3 or 4 of close to zero sleep) but find myself wide awake and bright as a button a few hours later. And the rest of the time my mind just wont shut off and let me settle enough for sleep. Thanks...

Thanks Alice, and I totally agree, I didn't want to go back down the self medicating route at all once i quit drinking. I wanted to tough it out myself. But I'm going to drive myself and my poor husband bat shit crazy if i dont figure something out soon, or start drinking again, because i know...

So after 7 weeks of not self medicating with alcohol (yays) I'm finally ready to overcome my anxiety about damned doctors, quit procrastinating and I'm off to the doctor today to beg for something to help me sleep and calm the anxiety that I've stubbornly told myself i can handle alone for too...

Haha! I do this too with hobbies! Scrap booking Calligraphy Embroidery Sewing You name it, I have kits brimming with brand new almost untouched tools for whichever obsession I developed that week to be discarded the next. I heard about adult coloring last year, went out and got a couple...

During depressive states im a wall starer. Quite literally, I think my longest virtual catatonic state this bout was 13 hours. So I find after a period like that my energy levels are so low that im very fatigued from just small activities and need to rest frequently. Frustrating since im...

Refreshed!! Finally, I got 10 hours sleep last night.

For comparisons sake, and looking only at a society level I feel like people accept combat ptsd with much less stigma (though only in recent times I know) To me the obvious reason is that combat ptsd is the result of heroic actions. The serving member is looked at with respect, he after all...

He's deflecting. Either his exposure therapy is really hitting some raw wounds (I dont know a lot about this type of therapy) which cause him to feel TOO exposed, which I know is the point, but whenever I strike on something real that I've been hiding from or denying I go into a state of...

W I see you. You are not invisible here x

We communicate okish, til I go postal, he's pretty good. I could DEFINITELY use that method productively when I'm reclusive or struggling to say what I need or feel. Stupidly, I am the one who has no clue how to express feelings, and as a man he struggles to read the imaginary signals I...

We've spent months now blaming ourselves and/or each other, and then days at a time convinced that only one of us can fix it all and the other is perfect. Think we should be aware by now that this ones 50\50 like any relationship. We will have to fix this together. I make my own choices...

I think this is a precarious ground for most of us Lost. I've got a few sexual preferences that i know were aroused or caused by my trauma experiences. A lot of my very early therapy concentrated on healing my sexual disfunction. A huge amount of work was done accepting that it was ok to...

Ohh brave move. I like it, hope you break through the denial and shame part soon and begin to acknowledge your statements! It sure does get worse before you start to heal doesn't it? Like your mind is resistant to the change. We are odd things us humans, hanging on for dear life to things...

I sincerely doubt he is taking this. Saying as gently as I can, you seem to have some insecurities of your own? Understandable given his unpredictable and ever changing behaviour. That pattern is pretty common among sufferers, and while my own trauma was not combat related I can still relate...

Turns out I'm in a dreadfully crabby mood. Who knew? Been awake for 4 hours now and didn't recognise this mood until I tried to have a conversation and realised I was snapping. I am the strangest person I swear.

Aww dont feel disgusted, or angry in coping mechanisms that have got you this far, incorrect or not, they are what you know xxx