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Location, UK. Veteran. So, this has been building for a few months now. I already live in chronic pain from old injuries but, with increasing insomnia, and night terrors, I manage to get 2-3 hours of sleep most nights. Taking the poisons called Drugs. They all pretty much useless as I have...

Remembrance day. Another year, and the list of those I knew, remember, and honour, gets longer. It's their stories and loss that stings as I am the last man standing from my team and that feels wrong. I have been told that is survivors guilt. Aka "Why them and not me?" My lovely wife will...

I'm done with the UK's NHS contractors BS mental health tick list CBT as it had zero relevance to what was attacking me when I'm asleep. Despite me pleading for them to concentrate on the nightmares. End result? The anger I had suppressed for years is back! It wasn't until a USvet buddy asked me...

Hi. I'm a vet, suffering from combat PTSD over the last 40 years. When first treated, I was treated by what is now called PET (Prolonged Exposure Therapy). It worked with only a few minor 'tilts' over the years. Those tilts were controlled by the foreign hospital's coping mechanisms. Until it...

I'm a combat vet who retired from service in the 1980's and went humanitarian. Hearts and minds, helping unbelievably nice but destitute level people to survive. Until a false war struck and ethnic cleansing started. It was brutal, and our team worked 24/7 for 6 months picking up the pieces...

I lived with PTSD for 40 years. After initial treatment I was OK with life. Until 2 years ago when social media and the Internet re-lit the fires. Now? The demons are back and playing with my mind in my sleep. Then I asked for help 🤣, and found no one listened anymore.