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So why are you here if you've given up?

So are you saying you've just given up?

Welcome @J.R

A lot of the music I've been listening to lately is pretty angry - Five Finger Death More accessible and much more Canadian - Great Big Sea, The Real McKenzies, The Tragically Hip. And for something really different - The Wicked Tinkers :) How could anyone go wrong with bagpipes and didgeridoo?

Maybe I'm biased but anything that mentions Rwanda catches my attention. I also realize I still have a lot of work to do fighting my own inner propaganda. Mind Control: How to win the war in your head

For a long time, I would wake up with a start wondering where (and even when) I was. I would struggle to remember which country I was in and where I had gone to sleep. Having something significant nearby really helps. For me, it's my dog. When I wake and he is at my feet I know I am in Canada...

I'm not sure you need to or should forgive yourself. There is probably no way you are going to convince yourself what you did is OK. Instead, try acknowledging your mistake, accept your responsibility, learn from it, and vow not to repeat it. That's the best most of us can do.

Couldn't figure out where else to share this but if you love dogs and have PTSD it might just touch something - "The Dog Song"

More from Penn: Penn Jillette on Islam

One of my favorite magicians and atheists: Penn Jillette: Reading the Bible (Or the Koran, Or the Torah) Will Make You an Atheist

I do that too :)

Assuming you are already getting therapy and following your treatment plan I suggest you start working on 'rituals'. I found developing a morning ritual really helped with the depressive sides of PTSD. The idea is to set a very small minimum start to the day. If you complete that minimum you are...

Yes! That's the way. Engage with people whose views differ from yours. You can disagree, debate, push back and forth and still be civil. Life is not a zero-sum game.

No conspiracy required. The dictators of the world have been using their knowledge of people's need to confirm their core beliefs from the beginning of time. That's why it's so easy for them to stand up and yell, "It's the Mexicans", "it's the Muslims", "it's the Jews","it's the old white guys"...

Hey, @Scott88 to add to @TreeHugger 's questions did the 'noise' start before you were diagnosed? Did it start before you started taking the meds?

Beats me. I'm afraid to check the mail. None of my traumas have anything to do with the mail yet it takes all my courage to check and even more to open it. Sometimes PTSD just doesn't make sense.

Stress is real. It affects the brain. It affects the body. It is not 'all in the head', as if that makes it somehow less real. Stress kills people. If you really think it is 'just stress' you might want to consider making some lifestyle changes before 'just stress' becomes something doctors...

like I should have had the good graces to die when I should have.

When you can read posts on myPTSD and think to yourself, "Ah, I remember when I used to think like that."

I'm OK driving here on my little island but anywhere else makes me worry about having a flashback. It was all I could do to hold on till I could find an exit. If I'm stressed I tend to drift back into Afghanistan driving. The cops don't seem to like that much.

Absolutely nothing :) I can't remember the last time I made it through a whole day without feeling some sort of anger. It feels good.

Psychology Today is to psychology as fitness magazines are to fitness. Both are in the business of selling magazines and advertising, not wellness. New, different, exciting and controversial are what sell. Most people don't want to slog through research publications. They want "30 Days to...

I think you should post that in the US politics thread too. It's brilliant :)

Sounds like sleep paralysis to me too. It's more common in children but happens to adults as well especially when overtired and with some meds. It is very scary. On a side note, it's thought that the legend of the old hag came from the common experience of sleep paralysis.

If you were a military dependent in Germany during the 60s/70s/80s it was a very pessimistic time. I was a base brat during that time. I remember the sirens and our building's survival shelter. I remember the oil crisis and the autobahns being closed on Sundays to save fuel. I remember my father...