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I have had PTSD for 20+ years, I foolishly thought I could have a normal relationship, a wife, kids etc. I finally got help a couple of years ago and have made great progress, but the one thing I can't seem to get is emotional attachment to somebody else it's just gets flipped into the too hard...

Confirmation bias is a phenomenon wherein decision makers have been shown to actively seek out and assign more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis, and ignore or underweigh evidence that could disconfirm their hypothesis. Ms Spock sent me this definition and I can be honest with...

I have been processing a large amount of my bad memories. Even though I am slowly making peace I can stop myself from feeling like I'm a bad person. Has anybody else experienced this or is my brain trying to tell me something.?

I think of myself as old ugly man, a loner who can even scare away people by them seeing my photo.Do you guys feel the same or am I just an ugly old man

Why, what use do I have , I drive people away, I watch them die, I belong in hell. There is no real reason for me being here why did the guy not aim better. Why didn't the $@&@$@ Taliban not get me, why didn't the $@&@ Israeli's shoot down my $@$@! plane. Nothing, absolutely nothing changes.

I have been having some nasty nightmares lately. The biggest problem is I am sleep re-enacting them, it's very strange, the other night I was trying to find bandages to pack a soldiers wounds.

I feel like I am sealed in a vacuum, and nobody can get close to me, so I'm sealed off from emotion and intimacy. I just want someone to talk to I need to get out of this, I really do.

I just cant put myself out there emotionally. I seem to no longer have any emotional connection or intimacy, I am a empty shell that just gets tbrough each day.

Was just wondering if there was anybody in Perth.

All the kings and queens in the bible They could not turn back time So what chance have I of a miracle In this life of mine? I only want one day To unsay the things I said Undo the thing I did Twenty-four little hours Oh God, please wipe them all away And I promise I will change If I could start...

Really feel on edge at the moment, I feel I need to take the next step but I don't know how to.

I seem to have this incredible ability to drive away friends, I start off ok but I think I either push to hard or come across as a defeatist asshole after a while. I guess what I am saying is, what can I do? Any ideas?

Is anybody else taking phenelzine any tips on bad side effects or anything else?

Look this might sound weird, but in trying to help someone on this forum I think I might have made them withdraw rather than realise their full potential see how wonderful they are and they deserve so much more out of life.

I have had combat PTSD for the last 20 years. I served in the South African Defence Force as an operational medic (combat). I was fired upon by a young man, and I in my cockiness as a 19 year old, thought if I shot him in the shoulder I could drop him and fix him up. Long story short, my shot...

An anniversary is coming up in a couple of days. An incident that affected me in a way I didn't think possible, I had being trying my best to get myself killed for about 13 years (another story). I came to realise its not the governments that made the decisions to invade or kill there own...

I'm relatively new to this site mostly posting on the Combat PTSD site, but certain circumstances have brought me to post this today. I put this to you, my daughters have had to put up with my emotional withdrawal for the last 6 years and a good couple of years of me dragging them around the...

I dont even know if this is the right place to post this. I have reached the point of no return, I see no reason to blunder around this God forsaken world anymore, I feel so isolated it makes me sick and there is no end in site. Today I sat in a meeting and realised nobody would give a shit if I...

I have slowly murdered my marraige over the years with my erratic work decisions, my idea of saving the world one patient at a time meaning I needed to run were I thought the greatest need was. Always feeling I was needed somewhere else, somewhere I could prove to myself I was a real medic. This...

Keep on having bad dreams at the moment, stupid stuff I thought I was over, but its messing with me badly any suggestions would be apprecciated.

I dont know if this is even the right section to post this in but anyway. I seem to put my foot in it on a regular basis and I can't seem to stop myself. I have dragged my family from one end of the world to the other trying to hunt down a job were I can redeem myself (see my introduction) this...

For the last seventeen years I have been living a self imposed sentence for what I call murder. I unlike most people on this forum fought in an unjust war for a government set on killing its fellow countrymen. I was part of the military that did this, I was a operational medic and through...