Differences Between Combat And Abuse Related Ptsd

[Sideways]

Wow!

 

[anthony]

Struggle with praise??

I don't struggle with it, I haven't attended ANZAC day since then either. I don't want to be around military, it isn't healthy healing for me. Being around other veterans in a private atmosphere is different than being around some public military thing, to me.

I left Townsville because it heightened symptoms for me. I have friends who are out now, but still live and breathe military, and to be honest, I don't want to be around that either. I don't view it as disrespecting or respecting anything... it was a job, I don't do that job any more, so I see no reason to live and breathe it as though it is still part of me. It isn't. My past is part of me, I've dealt with it and live in the present as much as possible.

The present is healthy, the past and future are not usually healthy places of focus.

 

[Ed Norton]

Well I do think of the future stay present, sure..there's nowhere else to go but my present honestly suck while being reduced to poverty and at this moment in mourning but I see a bright future for myself




If a train don't run over me before then :p



RIP David Divino Serrano fell in front of a train in Mamaroneck. He was a mathematics major. We had physics class together..what a cool guy!!

 

[anthony]

@Ed Norton, please stop posting off-topic in threads. You're getting worse with this, and action will be taken if you continue.

 

[Ed Norton]

Ok done with this thread. I feel I was on topic but my point is difficult to convey

Take care sir, my apologies if I am misunderstood.

 

[anthony]

RIP David Divino Serrano

How is this on-topic Ed? Hence my point. You keep doing this in threads all over the community, and it is really starting to annoy me. Focus on the thread subject and stay on topic please, without consistently derailing threads with useless, off-topic information.

 

[Ed Norton]

I apologize. You said something about staying in the present and that works for you sir but I can't stay in the present because I need to make a future for myself so I'm obligated to think about the future. Then I made a tasteless joke about about train accidents..when someone who I knew who was actually run over by a train for real.

I am sorry for the slight off topic post but the rest of what I said here is on topic, AFAIK

You asked for an explanation of that remark. It's the only reason I have returned here. I feel I have expressed myself and my view sufficiently here so I shall depart this topic and move to others.

Please have a nice day Anthony

 

[Whyteferret]

I need to preface this by saying that I have so much love and respect for veterans of war, not just t...

I don't tell many people about my PTSD or where it came from. Pretty much, I stick to just saying "I'm a vet." For me, it's not something I want to tell many people.

I have seen a difference among veterans. Combat PTSD seems to be more,accepted than other traumas. There is also,still a lot of shaming or lack of acknowledging that sexual assaults really happen. Too much accusing the victims of lying in kne way or another.

 

[Whyteferret]

I'll second the idea that the truth of what happens in war should be more widely known.

The idealism th...

Not all military PTSD is combat related. People in general also don't recognize this.

Sexual assault is a common cause of non combat PTSD.

 

[Unknown Victim]

I would like to know the differences between combat vs abusers vs medical.

Even though, I'm new to PTSD and I had it for 43 years. The combat seems to be more aggressive towards fear, a person that was abused is more passive, and the medical is more helpless because we can't control the environment.

 

[Ed Norton]

Yes I was abused medically by a psychiatrist and he almost killed me with meds..Seroquel, no titration of dose...up to 400mgs almost instantly..near cardiac arrest. .and depakote a gram..allergy..thanks goddess staff and nurses knew he was f*cked up..not 'my trauma' but a contribution to the overall mess...

 

[EveHarrington]

I would like to know the differences between combat vs abusers vs medical.

I know people say PTSD is PTSD is PTSD but I think that's an oversimplification. It would be interesting to see the different effects that various types of trauma have on us-----that is, deeper than just a different set of triggers and such.