Feeling Alienated
Well, I thought relationships are not only with regards to the opposite sex, so here is how I feel.
Whilst I was serving, in the early days, everything was fine. You had mates at work who you worked with drank with and deployed with. Then marriage happened. You had to settle down a bit and you had to develop a new circle of friends to include your partner.
Because you were posted every few years from state to state, generally your close friends were military orientated unless you were close to your home town.
Then after returning from operations, I found that people looked and treated me differently. I thought it was them until I discovered years later that I had PTSD.
The problem today is that most of my close friends that I had have moved away, or don't want to associate anymore. Its like I have AIDS or something. Finding new friends is even harder. I have trouble associating. I have tried. But most of the people in the civilian sector just want to yap on about trivial crap which I find irritating.
Or they start asking question after question and I start feeling trapped, then they look at you weird.
So anyway, I find my life very, very lonely. The only people I can really associate with have PTSD, and face it, you don't want to talk about being in the service, or operations, too many memories.
Now I understand why a lot of veterans want to move away out in the boonies.
Well, another bit of therapeutic mumbo jumbo for you all to read.
Does anyone else feel the same way, or has anyone else come up with a miraculous way around it.
Jimmy:confused:
Well, I thought relationships are not only with regards to the opposite sex, so here is how I feel.
Whilst I was serving, in the early days, everything was fine. You had mates at work who you worked with drank with and deployed with. Then marriage happened. You had to settle down a bit and you had to develop a new circle of friends to include your partner.
Because you were posted every few years from state to state, generally your close friends were military orientated unless you were close to your home town.
Then after returning from operations, I found that people looked and treated me differently. I thought it was them until I discovered years later that I had PTSD.
The problem today is that most of my close friends that I had have moved away, or don't want to associate anymore. Its like I have AIDS or something. Finding new friends is even harder. I have trouble associating. I have tried. But most of the people in the civilian sector just want to yap on about trivial crap which I find irritating.
Or they start asking question after question and I start feeling trapped, then they look at you weird.
So anyway, I find my life very, very lonely. The only people I can really associate with have PTSD, and face it, you don't want to talk about being in the service, or operations, too many memories.
Now I understand why a lot of veterans want to move away out in the boonies.
Well, another bit of therapeutic mumbo jumbo for you all to read.
Does anyone else feel the same way, or has anyone else come up with a miraculous way around it.
Jimmy:confused:
