General Fear of blackouts

[Never_falter2]

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 been actively encouraged by the government.
In the last months... especially in the last weeks... Vet has been worried... and recognized it was a fear having to do with his ptsd but could not let go of it and did a lot of reading and reading things over and over again.
I think that both the country and the population are well prepared for a black out.

 

[Sweetpea76]

I don’t know if I’d call it a fear, but mine can be a bit obsessive with prepping. He’s not over the top, but we could definitely hunker down, eat, drink and defend our perimeter against Zombies for a few weeks to a month. It’s part of his hypervig.

Hell, he’d probably enjoy a good blackout so he could tell me he told me so while cackling and eating canned butter. ?

 

[Never_falter2]

It sounds like your vet enjoys being hypervigilant a bit. Mine often doesn’t like it because he knows other people aren’t and then he feels like something wrong with him... and also he doesn’t like to be worried and stressed out. BTW Because you mentioned canned peanut butter enjoy that canned pumpernickel bread with canned peanut butter. I think the bread tastes better than the normal one and peanutbutter is always canned in my country. Do they sell it fresh in the US?

 

[ChildofGod]

I definitely fear blackouts. I cannot stay in somewhere pitch black, or super dark. I have some battery powered lanterns and tiny lights with batteries I can use as well.

I also have walkie talkies, but we've never had to use them yet.

 

[Sweetpea76]

Yep... we can get the canned brown bread here. We have some in our pantry too. It’s all good until you get some with raisins in it. ?

I don’t think he enjoys being hypervigilant as much as he just accepts it. Being vigilant saved his life, and so didn’t being prepared. I don’t think he wants to turn that off.

He’s getting to the point where he kinda jokes about it... like he has some hearing damage and supposedly can’t hear me if I call at him from the kitchen. However if one piece of gravel shifts outside he suddenly has the ears of bat. He says it makes sense because insurgents don’t stand in the kitchen and bitch.

 

[Freida]

canned brown bread here.

canned brown bread?? yikes!

Ok so I've never thought about it before but I have flashlights stashed all over my house. huh. how bout that?

Ya -- not gonna be in the dark.

 

[Never_falter2]

I think my guy doesn’t like being hypervigilant. Sometimes he likes being vigilant and sometimes I think he wants to be like “sheeple“ (as he calls people who are not hypervigilant at all). He also doesn’t embrace or accept it. It is something that happens to him. So to so speak.

 

[Sweetpea76]

I think my vet had a pretty major turning point in his treatment when he accepted that he had a “new normal”.

 

[Never_falter2]

I guess you are right. How did it happen to him that he was able to accept things as his “new normal“? I mean: how was he able to finally turn away from “that has to change“ and accept “it is like this“? ? Sometimes I really wish my English was better.
That is something both me and Vet wish for.

 

[Sweetpea76]

Lots of treatment and time. It took awhile, and he was pretty bad off for awhile. I think it was a whole process that came along with him accepting he was physically disabled now as well. He had to grieve for his old life and want to actually live again the best way he can with the way things are now.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I don't fear the no lights as I feel safer in the dark but I struggle, A LOT, with silence. I always have a tv going. I always have sound. After hurricane Irma came through, I totally was not prepared charging devices wise and so got 3 power banks, one solar charged and then my job gave me another. So, I can charge my phone 8 times over. Also got a battery powered radio as well. All after the week of no power but I wanted to ensure I could have some sort of sound no matter what.

 

[Freida]

always have a tv going. I always have sound.

me too! It makes hubby nuts because I always have the tv on but I"m never actually watching it :laugh: