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Aye! no problem I know exactly what you mean, it's like everything else, you have to go through it to understand it, and even then, there no guarantee that you can cope with it? I've been alone now for nearly two years, and it's only now that I'm starting to get used to it.

I just wonder if the person who you feel is "near you" all the time, is in fact your grandfather? It could be your brains way of coping with his sudden death. After all, you said that you were very close to him, it's just a thought. My Dad has been dead for a long time now, but sometimes, when...

That's where I can't really agree with you, love changed my life for ever, and that song title "Love Hurts" is ever so true. But finding out it wasn't there, .........that can really hurt as well?

You are not the first person to feel like that, and you won't be the last either. I for one know exactly what your going through, and believe me, there are many others on here who do as well. Everyone goes through a bereavement at some time in their lives, as well as emotional break-ups, but we...

Yea! exactly, as I always say, if we can find one positive thing out of every day, we have achieved a lot, good luck.

Welcome to the site, we seem to both have that in common, good luck.

I remember thinking to myself years ago when I was 40, that I was glad I had crammed so much life into the first 40 years of my life, as life was so dull at the time. I remember being envious of blokes who worked close to home, who could go home every night to their family, as I spent so much...

I think we everyone on here has trouble sleeping at nights, I know I do. Most of my sleep time is from around 05.00 to 10.00, and even that is just short naps joined together? I do try and sleep normal, and have tried going to bed earlier, but there's no point, as I just lay there, awake. If I...

The call I got from the hospital today, giving me a date for my operation that I've been waiting for eleven months now! I haven't felt so good as this for years, or so positive!

I know what you mean, I had to go there a few years ago for a medical review, and the treatment I got was unbelievable, I was treated like a suspect in a serious crime! They got me so nervous and anxious, that I couldn't talk properly, I started to stammer and stutter and got confused, they...

I am always more motivated to get out of bed in the summer time, as I know I can be outside all day pottering about in the garden, or maintaining the sheds. It's the winter time when my motivation drops right down, as it's too cold or wet to be outside, and the days are so short, it's hardly...

Yea! I get annoyed with my own mood swings, mainly because I have no control over them, and that's frustrating! They come and go so quickly, and no matter how hard I try, I just can't shake them off! I can change from feeling quite happy one minute, to really feeling depressed and tearful, but...

Sounds like a good course to take, I wish you all the best for it, and hope you can help a lot of ex service folk.

Aye! that's true, it's easier to open up and confide in someone who has been there, that it is to share your feelings with a stranger. There is something between ex service people that seems to bind them together, it's something that a civilian doesn't understand or has? It's the way they...

Yea! I'm glad in a way that my working life came to an end, when I was invalided out of my job with the emergency services, some sixteen years ago, when I was fifty. As my employers were doing their very best to get me to leave the job, due to legal case that I won against them a couple of...

I decided, at very short notice to go out for my meal at the local supermarket again today. I had forgotten to take anything out of the freezer, and as I had been inside all day. I decided to go out. I'm just making the best of my new found confidence, as I wouldn't even have considered doing...

I write it down in the "notes" part on my phone, as I check that every day when I switch my phone on.

Relieved.

Quote......."And there I was talking out loud in this littlekid voice." Yea! I do that, I find myself having conversations with myself, sounds daft I know, but I find it clears my head and makes me feel better. I suppose it's my way of coping with living alone, which I must admit I getting...

I've just reconnected with my sister, after ten years of silence, I'm well pleased about that. But I still don't have any contact with my two daughters, and that really hurts me.

I'm grateful that I had the confidence to go and have a meal at the supermarket today, that's the third time I've done that in the last few days. It's really given me hope for the future, something I wouldn't even have considered a few months ago, I'm grateful for the progress that I've made...

Welcome to the site, you've come to the right place to get help and support for your PTSD problem, I look forward to reading more of your posts, good luck.

That's the real problem, a lot of therapists and other people who try and help combat PTSD sufferers, don't understand, where as a person who has "been there" understands exactly. It's the same with the forces "language" and "back humour" I've been pulled up by someone who heard me talking to a...

I can't really hide my anxiety when I'm in public places, as if I'm in a store with my shopping trolley, and I find myself surrounded. I tend to "mark time" like I'm walking, but not going anywhere? I also get fidgety and nervous looking, (to the extent where I get looks from the shop security)...

Quote........"zopiclone". That's my knock out pill, that helps me sleep, it works wonders for me. The doc only allows me seven a month, as he says they are very addictive. I only use them after Ive had three or four sleepless nights, and I start to get cranky!