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Chilli And Chilli - Having A Bad Day

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oh and I proofread the post as much as i could but since I am so tired and I am having a little double vision I might have missed more than a few misspelled words....sorry about that.
 
Hey there guys ,woke up this morning and thought what the $#@& did i do last night,well had to many beers,not good, First of all, no one said anything of any unkind nature, just me and my mate Mr paranoia or, [that little basterd in my head] that wont leave me alone.lol. Every one has been so kind since i joined this site and i appologise if i offended anyone,it was not my intention to do so.Yesterday probally was agood day as i got to keep my house and my two boys[Dogs]. Last 6 months has been a bit of a journey, lets say a hell of a ride, and i think i came through pretty unscathed ,dont know how, i was nearly running out of puff there for a while, and i think i am just pissed at the world and i had no right to speak the way i did, you know some times i have mates that will call and say ,Hey Matt got six gongs now ,and i think $#@% is it all about the shrap on your chest or the job that you did,i think the job myself. So i think sometimes i beat myself up probally to much over #$%^ and take it out on others,dont mean to.Latley i think i have been hanging out with the fairys in the garden to much, better sought that real quick.Lol. Every one on this site since i have joined has had nothing but kind words to say, so i do appologise again for my profanity,will not happen again,hope your reading this Boss.[Anthony] I do feel most accepted here, and that probally scares me a tad, shouldn't. Think i need to get meds and sleep sorted ASAP for my own well being and others around me,big part of my problem i think,so chasing that up real quick as my good friend said ,so i can have quality of life ,which i know i am lacking in that department. So to all you fantastic people out there especially you Femalevet [Starting to take a liking to you,might have to catch up for coffee one day.lol. Thanks again for your understanding and kind words and jimmy yes mate i need to suck it up champ, try my hardest buddy. Tex, pics on the way mate bying triumph speed master and gona work the sucker, about two weeks mate. Everyone take care and thanks again. Think im gona se if i can catch a wave ,see you all real soon. Matt
 
No worries Matt.....you definitely did not offend me. I thought maybe I had said something to make you feel bad though. So no more apologies as it does not sound like you owe any of us one and I do not think anyone owes you one either. We are all brothers and sisters here and sometimes the communication lines get crossed.

As for the coffee well...we might just have to do that. My third cousin lives in Brisbane which is about 275 miles north of Coffs Haarbour which is I believe where you are from right? My Cuz married an Aussie and lives there full time year around and does something with Marine Biology. Her hubby is in a rock band and I guesss he must do pretty well at it. I cannot remember the name of the band right off hand but will find it out and maybe you might have heard of his band. ANNNNNNNywayyyyyyyyyy....my point is that my second cousin, her Dad, and his wife go to Australia every winter for about four months.....usually from just after Christmas to the end of March. They have a place in Brisbane and have offered it to me if I ever want to come and visit. I am thinking that next winter I might make the time to go and spend some time with them down there and also see my cousin since I have not seen her since I was about three years old. she would have only been like barely a year old. So it would be cool to see her and meet her hubby and her three kids too. Plus I love her Dad and Mom...they are like my real mom and dad and I just got back in touch with them when I got out of the hospital and all after Iraq. I went to Boston last October and stayed a week with them and now I might really go to Australia for a couple weeks next year to visit there. Plus i have always wanted to go to Australia.

So we might just actually be able to meet up for coffee. However, you have to find a place where i can rent a Harley Davidson for a day or two while i am there. I do live to ride ride to live. I am having my last (hopefully my last) leg surgery on April 4th and I should be sufficiently healed up enough to ride by the time it comes around to my cousins goign to Australia and I will probably go a few weeks after they get there since they need the time to settle into their place, see their kids and grandkids on their own for a few weeks before i blow into the country. When I visited them in Boston they were so wonderful and they played such great hosts to me and took me to see all the sights and whatnot......so I do not want to show up in AUS at the same time they do before they have had a chance to visit with their kids and all.

I am not hitting on you either by saying I will have coffee with you okay!!;);) I am sure you are worth being hit on but I am worth it too:D I really just want you to know that you are a good guy and you had no reason to feel unwelcome and for me to be willing to actually meet face to face with one of you blokes from down under then you must have done something right!! I would meet up with you, QLDAussie, and any of the others who live down under in a minute because I tell you the truth of the matter is this.....When i was in the military nearly all my career was spent in the 82nd ABN Division, except for two years in Hawaii at schofield barracks and then of course when i was deployed to various areas around the world. I have said this before but it bears repeating....only about .1% of all women in the military are airborne qualified....and of the .1% only about .08% of those females actually serve for any length of time in the 82nd. We had a lot of females come through my units I was stationed with but few of them lasted long. They either would get pregnant and could no longer jump so they would get trucked over to the XVIII ABN Corps on the other side of Ft. Bragg, they would get into some other trouble thinking they could get away with it because they were female (some of them did get away with it for just that reason and I hated those chicks) and then others just could not keep up with the physical demands of the running and roadmarching and even just regular PT, so they would end up getting sent out from the 82nd to soem other unit at Ft. Bragg where life was not perhaps so demanding.

So I, along with many of you I suspect had very little experience working with other females in the military aside from my time in Hawaii which I hated because the females there had an attitude towards me because I had a set of wings on my chest (and then I got Air Assault wings too while stationed there because I got a slot to go to the Air Assault school they have there.....so I had two sets of wings when I left that place.....what can I say.....I am da'BOMB!) My point is that I always felt like I had a bunch of older brothers in the men I served with who were my peers or even those who outranked me. I also had a bunch of little brothers as far as the soldiers I led. This forum reminds me of the better times of my career and the family I had in the military...a family I desperately miss. Matt, QLD, Wagon, track, Willis and you other guys I cannot remember the handles of right now but you know who you are......you are all becoming like my big brothers and I cannot tell any of you how much that means. I did love the guys I worked for and the guys I worked with and the guys who worked for me. I would have given up anything to make sure they were all safe and made it home alive. I never lost a soldier in Iraq from my own platoon until the IED explosion and then I lost 4 all in one shot. I thought the grief was going to kill me even more than the endless infections I had from my wounds and even at one point they thought they would have to amputate my leg. I would have gladly let them do it if they would have said it would bring back Specialist Baker, SFC Morati, PFC Walsh, and ST Suwolkowski. They were great people all of them. I know that most of you guys here are the cream of the crop just like those men were and I am proud to call each of you a friend. I hope that is okay. And if your wives get mad that you made a female friend on here then just explain it is not a sexuality thing.....it is simply a fellow veteran thing.

Anyway I just wanted to say that since I do plan to have coffee with you sometime Matt. I would like to one day be able to meet all of you! Like I have said before you are all ACES in my book (man, speaking of ACES I won another 36 thousand dollars in just under 4 hours on PokerStars.net. I might just have to save up some cash when I am walking around again after surgery and I might have to go to Charleston WV to the Mardi Gras casino and see how I do. That might pay for the Aussie trip if I do as well at the real tables as I have been doing at the fake/play money tables. Plus I just ordered the World Series of Poker PSP Game to have something new to play on my PSP while I am in the hospital.

Again I think you are all great and Matt I am glad that you are feeling better. Do not worry about the brews you drank. Sometimes when my head hurts really bad and I break down and take pain meds, I have been known to post just once or twice on here where I make absolutely NO SENSE at all. So do not feel bad about that. I only take the meds when I need them but man when I take them, my head goes all sideways and I say all sorts of incomprehensible nonsense......so again don't feel bad about any of that. That is another thing I love about this forum is that we are free to express ourselves so long as we are not vicious or absolutely revolting towards another forum member. The military does not really encourage individual expression so now, at this time in life, it is a good thing to have a place like this to come to where you can express yourself.

Anyway, sorry I am rambling on. I just got done doing some upper body exercises (I can still keep my upper body in shape even if I cannot run) before I started writing and I had a sort of exercise high tonight I guess so I am sorry becasue when I get like that I just go on and on and on!!! I will shut up now....I promise!!
No wait...LOL.....Just kidding.....no but really....ROFLMAO.....No seriously I am kidding!!!!!!!!!! SHUTTING UP......OUT~~
 
Matt, happy to hear yor head is on a little straighter today and I don't think you need to worry about the cussing it happens all the time. Just be curtious and don't cuss directily at someone or try to be offensive in general to your fellow vets. My head gets off all the time and I am on meds still don't sleep well but that is the brakes. You really got to learn to step back and say this is the shit I f*cked up and then look at wow these are the things I've done good. Take your kids your proude of them you've done the best you could given the sercomstances. Remember all those times wether it was a broke toe the comfort and help you gave. the problem is just like a relationship one negative is equal to 10000 positives. So again cut youself some slack and try and spend just one day thinking of all the good you've done who knows you may find out that you can start to come to terms with some of the bad. I consider you my friend that is why I told you to quit crying in your beer and drink it. I seen this on a movie I think it was young guns. There were three fellows sitting around a fire one a preist, one an outlaw, and one a gunslinger. They had found out that the world was going to end. The outlaw ask the preist what are you going to do with rest of your time he replied I am going to pray. The preist asked the outlaw what are you going to do with your last hours he replied go to the whore house get two whores and the finest bottle of mescal and f*ck till the end. The preist and the outlaw perplexed that the gunslinger had not even spoke a word so they asked what are you going to do he replied I SHALL FINISH THE GAME! We all know we have a problem and I know somewere inside of all of us or between all of use we can get through this and we to shall finish the game. Think of it this way between the physical wounds and the menal wounds we are here and we ain't going away. I know that as long as I got my familly here no matter what this shitty world throws at me I can come here and eirter get my ass chewed for being stupid or encouraged for the good I'm doing. Matt just remember you are nver alone and together however it turns out we will finish the game. Luv Ya Brother and thank you for you service to your country and the free world. Just rambling. TEX
 
G'day all. Not sure how this all works but I'm a soldier who last worked in Angola/mozambique and a brief op in Zim. I live in New Zealand now and am having a roughie fitting in. I've been here nine years and still don't really know if I'm valued here. Broke my neck at work in 2003 after being here 1.5 yrs so that may be part of it but I just feel like I'm in a movie all the time and these people are taking the mickey. I live alone with my 15 yr old daughter who is very understanding but I have absolutely no mates. I know people but they just seem to leave me cold and I've chased a few people away I reckon by just being honest. Are we supposed to live a lie for our remaining days or is there really proper life away from this computer thing???
Sorry if I'm a stuck record. Just seems like we should have a place to ourselves and hoist a flag 'cause nobody else gives a damn unless I'm part of a rersearch project or useful to stop a disagreement.
I'm too old for mercwork and too young to not any mates. Any thoughts?
Thanks everyone
 
Hey there Tex , jeez mate between you and my good friends Dawn and jimmy, i keep having to suck on the old co2 mate,bit puffed here reading these notes.:) Yes mate totally agree with what your saying, saw my psyc yeserday and fairly got one up me,in a nice way,and not what your thinkin pal.:Dlol.Explained a lot of my problems with him and just let it out. Yea sometimes mate feel a little on the outer, with missing a couple of boats , but as he explained ,could of had a shell with my name written all over it waiting for me. And your right got to start looking at the pos in my life not the neg all the time. Yes i wore that great aussie uniform for ten years and im proud, and im proud of the blokes i served with. Some times i think i just have to much nervous energy , jumping around in this shell need i to expell some,maybe flog the bike ah.I think the reason i had a spit was probally all the shit i have just been through last 6 months , but the out come was agood one ,so why am i winging,everthing has worked out well. Just joining this site has made me take good look at myself.[Thanks Guys] and relise im not the only one with problems so there will be no more of poor Matt. Done and Dusted. I still understand that some days im gona go down like a piece of $#@% but what i have to do is deal with it ,like every one else does, and not cry in that good beer.[ What a waste]:) one thing i got to do, is start liking myself and not putting myself down all the time [Psyc] As far as sleep, well im getting that soughted because i know if i dont get good zzzzzzz im one cranky mother $%^&*^& which aint helping me at all, and i know that im not always going to get good sleep, so got to deal with that as well and, yes Jimmy suck it up:)I know as long as i have all my good friends here im in good hands, and i luv all you people ,i feel at peice with talking to my own kind.[ Nothing against you civis]:D Anyhow enough of my shit ,off to by bike today so pretty happy,every one take care and look after yourselves , Ya mate Matt. Cheers P/s Love ya gun slinger joke to Tex.:cool:
 
Fair enough. Sorry I don't warrant a reply. That was a genuine plea for ...what? I don't know but it was one.
May your weapons shoot true and breathing stay with you> davesawol out
 
Davesawol, I guess your name is Dave.

We are here for you, but sometimes us vets don't answer. Can I suggest you put a post in the introductions area.

You say that we should have a place for ourselves, well this is the place. Its for veterans only, no matter which country you have served in. Its about learning about Combat related PTSD and how we can manage it.
There is a section for partners/carers/supporters, they offer great input sometimes, and also wish to know things on how we feel sometimes.

Welcome aboard buddy

Cheers

Jimmy
 
Welcome Dave don't quite understand what you were getting at in the second post was off to ea some supper. This is a good place to learn share hell all the friends I talk to on a regular basis all the asses are right here,:p. No these are some of the best people to know and trust me they are from everywhere so you can learn a lot. Jimmy said post on the introduction area that will help you to get to know folks because not everybody searches all through this forum to see whos new. Welcome again brother. TEX
 
Wilco that one Tex old son.:) As for Davesawol welcome aboard mate, we are all here to help each other as Jimmy said, you couldnt be in a better place my friend,trust me on that one. As for quick responses it happens when it happens buddy, some times we are just busy doin the head mile thing.:D I have just joined this site and it is the best thing ive done yet,so dont feel alone, where right beside you mate,just watch out for tex he writes long threads;)lol.And back at ya tex.Me ive had a pretty good day, bar locking my car keys in vehicle.[ Jeez im a idiot, expensive lunch with Bank Manager].Hey anyone seen femalevet? Anyhow Dave glad your here brother. Cheers Matt.
 
I just destroyed my refrigerator.

Thank goodness, refrigerators tend to be a lot tougher than a lot of other things you may find around your house. They're pretty hard to permanently destroy. I took a real good try at it though. First, I threw a couple of the juice bottles of frozen water. A couple minutes later, the tray that serves as a shelf in the freezer, with everything on it, right into the nonworking stove with a CRASH. (The fridge is brand new, but the &%@@(# who sold it at a "discount" said that meant no shelf in the freezer so things are jury-rigged in there to keep stiuff from blocking vents, etc) That felt , well, not good, but it's hard to stop when the rage is still putting up a screeching in my head. And it's been doing that for days....not all the time though, so I guess I hadn't quite realized how very close to the edge I'd gotten.

I started to put the jury rigging --which had fallen apart--back together. It fell apart again, right in my hands.

KA CRASH! SMASHY CRASHY WHAM! Jugs of forzen water, frozen meat, bags of frozen fruit, cans of frozen juice, and the homemade pumpkin pudding from last october all hoit the stove, the counter, th floor, the sink, (and back into the freezer -- I smashed things into the back wall and floor of the freezer compartment soi much my hands hurt) and not all at once, either, in stages....somewhere in the middle I turned to the man standing beside me trying to provide help in calming down and said, briefly, "Go away. You aren't going to like this. Go away just until It's over". How wierd is that?

Then I threw EVERYTHING in the freezer and slammed it so HARD the stuff in the door flew overthe retaining bar into the main compartment SERIOUS CRASH and then kicked the fridge door, and finally slammed that shut too (it had flown open) precipitating another cascade. Onto the floor. Into the fridge itself.

And then, suddenly, just like that, it was over. Pooffffffff. rage gone. Or something. I feel quite distinctly wierd now. Like I am not really here, or something. I don't mean. mentally on vacation. I mean I don't FEEL anything. I just stopped having any feelings when the last SLAM occurred.

So I put everything back into the freezer, redid the juryrigging first of course, and everything back into the fridge, including the retaining bars for both doors which were lying all over the place. Discovered I;d dented the back wall of the freezer. Oh well. Looked allover for the last container of pumpkin pudding...finally found it on the counter by another container just liek it with something else in it --and didn;t even get angry at having to serach for it.

Just inadvertantly knocked something over, too, and not the slightest reaction in my head.

I dunno what's worse...the rage fit or the aftermath. All I can think of is...geez what if this had happened at work? and geez my fella deserves some kinda medal for being here through sh*t like this. And finally, geez is that bloody therapy gonna help with this?

I think I'd like to retire to something like Aussie's dream place, only here in my area. Sounds...realllllly nice.

I don't get angry any more. I go into fits of absolute rage.

Okay, maybe I start to get angry sometimes. I think it's more annoyance that suddenly turns to explosive rage with little in the way of anger inbetween.
 
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