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This is the stuff that the Beast puts on our plate each and every day. Some days I can deal with it - others not so well. Today I can laugh and recall what was good. Tomorrow may be altogether different. Today I kicked the beast in the nuts and moved on. Truth is that there are things that I...

Welcome Petersonc, This forum is for combat vets diagnosed with PTSD. Please feel free to let us know about yourself. Reading the section on Introductions will give you the guidelines. Ba

Welcome Mr Hyde.... *my wife stuck with me even though i was horrible she helped me cover* Carl, you have the best support outside of a fellow warrior brother - a good woman can make the difference. Treasure HER she is an asset for the rest of your journey. Have a seat there is a lot of...

Very nice, a great surprise!!!!

Welcome to our forum Stoody - make yourself at home. Ba

Welcome Pieces - you're among friends here pull up a chair or take a knee. You'll find plenty of guys on the forum who served in the sand box. Some of old Nam Farts prefer the chair, if I take a knee and I'll never get up. *My following deployment, I don't really care to say what I did or was...

Barb, You have engaged the T, I feel, in a respectful manner and made you request . He has an obligation to Yea/Nay the request and explain the reason. The ball is in the T's court. *I feel so pathetic I can't take care of this.* Don't put yourself down you may need some help. Don't project...

Welcome Bob - you guys did special stuff back in the day. Welcome Home Brother! "Anyway, I've to just "living with it" if you can call it living." I was there early on (65-66) spent almost 25 years trying to drown the Beast with booze - it worked to a degree. I could no longer hide my...

Welcome Brian, as JR just mentioned, we're here to help. Don't give up on the group therapy - if it's NOT working then let them know. They are NOT mind readers you have to give feedback (good or bad). Also, try checking out a local Vet Center as they offer a whole array of services related...

Welcome home bro, OohRah.... Pull up a chair and make yourself at home. Lots of stuff to read and feel comfortable to ask questions. There are a few of ol' Nam Farts occuping this hooch as you will see for yourself. Ba (USN - 9th MEB - FMF Danang RVN 1965 - 66)

Jar, that's a wonderful pro-active philosophy. For those of us who imagine ourselves to have moved somewhat beyond the raw emotion of those three conditions there is an alternative. (lol) "Foretold is forewarned" My PTSD group have invested in a simple means of derailing a situation heading...

CG, it's a necessary ritual for those of us who SERVED! Since (through our service) we understand the meaning of the concept and have to be reminded on occasion what it 's like to SERVICED. Forgive them as they do not know what they do - literally! Ba

Grizz, "It's dawned on me that my therapy is working. I learned this the other day. I had 3 choices. Slap the shit out of him. Which would have ended badly. Begin an un-winnable argument on our individual beliefs. Or re-focus my anger. Which I dumped on you guys." You've come a long way in a...

Ditto JR Ba

Welcome Kaishi, Feel free to look around and ask questions and get comfortable. Ba

JR, I'm a firm believer in the credo "If it ain't broke-don't fix it" Life is a series choices that we make, each of which we evaluate as either good or bad. In the end it's about what works for you to maintain that balance. Go for it!!! Ba

Welcome Bryan, Pull up a chair Brother your among friends. Ba

Where did I put my Chemistry 101 book I thought I seen around here it yesterday........ "Progress through Science" - yeah, I think that was the chapter WTF, myself and two vets gave up the "Demon Weed" (Cigs that is) in a gin mill New Years Eve 1969. We decided we'd rather drink ourselves to...

Nice Anthony, Clean and easy on the eyes, and when I forget WHO THE f*ck I am ....... just press HOME!!!

Haven't we seen the movie before.............. "It's going to be really helpful for those veterans, for their families. It also saves the taxpayers a lot of dollars because often the treatment is not successful," he said. ba

Good news Jack! "But, hey, at least I don't see the pleading faces of dying men when I close my eyes in the shower anymore. Which is not a small victory." It's about all those NOT so small victories - they do add up. Keep plugging away brother. Ba

Thank you all for explaining why I thought the youngsters were taught that in school. I overheard two HS boys at a supermarket and was ready to send my hearing aids back to VA. First, they were actually saying words and not conversing via their devices. Second, every third word was something I...

Good to see you back on deck again sailor, we need your support. You should not sound so surprised about the success Sludge - the big stuff we can do in our sleep. It's the f*cking broken shoelace that really sends us over the edge. "Starting therapy next week to get my words back." thats a...

Sludge, it's not sounding good brother, your keyboard is slurring as well. Listen to yourself, you need rest, that is defeating whatever calm the meds are supposed to bring. As long as your ass is dragging the Beast is in the drivers street. Only God knows what the f*ck the Beast is doing with...

"That smile scares the shit out of people" "What, me worry...." Shit, that got me through the first 25 years of untreated alcoholism and the next 20 sober not knowing what PTSD was. Sarg, I resemble that remark...:LOL: Ba