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    General How is everybody doing?

    Hope you are doing well and enjoying christmas time.
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    General Do men with ptsd want your empathy?

    I think they don’t. How do you think?
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    General We feel that our country doesn’t let us protect our family + ourselves (corona related)

    My vet is triggered by germs + by this pandemic actually. One of our sons is school aged. The other kids are younger. We have compulsory on site schooling in our country. He likes school and I never had a problem with this until the corona pandemic came. We hoped that because of the corona...
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    General Not eating anything but...

    Circa two weeks ago my guy wanted to eat nothing but watermelon for breakfast. We didn’t have watermelon. I asked him if I should go shopping. He didn’t want me to. We do not go shopping since the corona pandemic started but have our food delivered and have to have a delivery slot. So I ordered...
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    General Do you know the shadow land where there are no words?

    My vet he told me of the shadow land like a dark place and there are no words for the things happening there, like Christopher Robin in the movie Christopher Robin is there with one leg and it’s the reason why he cannot communicate with his family and us detached from them. Actually I wanted to...
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    Relationship Why is he suddenly feeling disrespected?

    My wanted to be hold/hugged, was telling me that he is feeling sad and stressed and frightened and I told him that this must be very bad for him and that I am sorry he is going through that. Then he got mad at me, told me I pity him, I disrespect him (like I ALWAYS do. ALWAAAAYS according to...
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    General Biting himself, scratching himself

    My vet returned to biting himself, scratching himself which he has done in the past but he managed to cope and mostly stop it... and now it has returned and is worse then ever. When I tell him not to he often gets angry at me and asks me why I think it is my business and refuses to discuss it...
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    General PTSD and fear of coronavirus

    Hi, just wanted to know if any of you/your loved ones is afraid of the new corona virus? My guy started to be worried about it circa ten days ago and talked me into doing some research now I am starting to be increasingly worried too while my Vet is getting more and more stressed. We always had...
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    General Does feeling triggered give you cold and/or hot hands and make you sweat?

    What is it like when you are triggered/your spouse is triggered? Does it give you first very cold and then hot hands? I am just asking because I think I found out that it is one indicator of how he is feeling. Like when he is a bit triggered he gets very, very extremely cold hands and indicates...
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    Relationship Offended over triffles

    Need to vent, just once. So sorry. I‘ll try to make it short. You probably know my guy doesn’t likely go to restaurants but sometimes has to. When we go to a restaurant together he often gets offended over triffles, for example me mentioning to a waiter that he is hard if hearing, or a waiter...
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    General So how are you going to spend New Years Eve?

    So merry Christmas... and how are you going to spend New Years Eve? Bit odd to ask this on Christmas but I know many of have a problem with this. So do we. What are you gonna do.
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    I think I might need someone to talk to tonight

    Silly reason. Vet is out there in a crowded place and most likely afraid (fear of terrorist attacked on Friday 13th during Christmas time. Bataclan was on Friday 13th). He infected me with his fear does somebody want to talk to me... but I won’t be here much.... need to prepare dinner for the...
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    General Wounded - not crazy (or defective) - sufferer input very welcome

    Hello, l would like to hear your point of view. How important was it for you to see yourself as wounded not crazy and how did you manage. Forms guy this is very important and I think nowadays most of the times when he thinks of having ptsd can say that he took wounds for his country and he wears...
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    General Have you or your sufferer ever felt more disgusted than you should?

    We all know that people with ptsd feel more fear and sometimes more anger than other people but have you or your sufferer ever felt more disgust than the normal person = have felt disgusted by thinks that actually aren’t disgusting? My vet for example feels disgusted by the handles of shopping...
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    General I wonder if there is something wrong with his stomach or if it is ptsd?

    I told you my vet changed his diet month ago. Not 100 percent but he is trying to eat more healthy. I am trying to cook more healthy. Couldn’t find the old thread. He had constipation, he changed his diet. On the one hand it became better... but he still often has constipation... and diarrhea...
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    General Dumbo with Colin Farrel and PTSD

    So Vet, the kids and me have been watching Dumbo (the 2019 life action movie) with Colin Farrell. Colin Farell plays a disabled Vet (Holt Farrier) in the movie. So Vet seemed to be pretty unmoved during the movie (but he was sad as he later told me) and I did not pay much attention. I always...
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    General Volunteering and helping other people - can it be a symptom of ptsd?

    So my vet likes to help other people which is nice... but he likes to do it at “great emotional expense“ (the best English word I can come up with)... like when he slept only three hours... but needs to help a friend with something. He also likes to promise to volunteer for something and then...
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    General Communicating about movies

    Sometimes my guy strongly identifies with a character in a movie... and tells me that having ptsd he just feels like that guy about a thing. Often this is not even a movie where one of the characters has ptsd, often the guy is a vet... but often this is just some kind of background info that TO...
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    How do people from the US/Canada/Australia think about climate change?

    Is this something discussed in your countries? How do you think about it?
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    General Sigh... I am so tired today

    ?????I did not sleep much this night because he did not and that always keeps me up, his stupid alarm clock rang at 0530 this morning, the day before that my guy was drinking a lot this weekend and stayed up until the early morning hours with a friend (and they started shouting, I mean not...
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    General Fear of blackouts

    I just wonder if any of your guys or any of the spouses suffer from fear of blackouts. I mean not psychological blackouts but power black outs. Sorry for my poor English. Do you know what I mean? We (and I hope most other people in our country) are prepared for a black out. Something that has...
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    General Just need to vent

    Vent No. 1: We had a number of (minor) misfortunes during the last week. Nothing really big or bad... some of them even funny... well at least if you aren’t the one to whom it happens but the one who only hears the story being told. However we are just so tired and done. ? My vet sleeps very...
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    General (His work is) “like a war“ metaphorically spoken

    Yesterday my guy was feeling down and he said that he felt that his work was “like a war“ not literally, but metaphorically spoken. His problem is that he always feels responsible for other people and he feels afraid that they die. That is true for me, our kids, his friends. He is afraid all of...
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    General Being complimented - a poll

    Do you like being complimented?/Does your sufferer like being complimented? Why/Why not? Do you feel as a cripple sometimes because of ptsd health problems or disability? Does your sufferer sometimes feel like this? Does being complimented how well you cope/how well your sufferer copes help is...
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    General Everybody so strict about table manners, unable to eat?

    My vet has combat ptsd, not strict parenting ptsd (or whatever the name for this may be). However he was also brought up quite strict. His parents, his nannies, his school all wanted to have him good table manners. We are from Europe as you know, where such things might be more important and...
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