I Am Supposed To Intro Myself So Here Goes.

[Zipperhead]

I'm Married (wife hasn't kicked me out yet) We have a seven year old. I crashed hard after Release in March, and I'm still down for the count. My injuries were bad enough to get me punted but the Headspacing and Timing's really what's holding me back now. I'm 41.

 

[gibrokedown]

44 as of november 28th. not married. one kid age 8. can't work due to the obvious. glad you're not kicked out yet. my two relationships both ended badly. I've not spoken to the second one in 4 years. he was a good guy, it was me that ruined it. i take that upon myself. but the first, was a cheating, lying ass who stole money from me, left his kid and his first kid with another chick, then tried to steal my kids IRS money when he never even lived with her long enough to say he was anything to her to get her money. he wanted it to get an apartment for his new gf which is now his wife *who left 3 kids behind! between the two of those assholes they abandoned 5 kids! at least those kids each have one parent who cares about them but the damage is huge with each of them emotionally. f*cking nards.

 

[gibrokedown]

oh i understand the being able to read when you wish. i just like the normal conversation when i need to deal with my ptsd issues it helps more. to me reading threads is more like reading ptsd materials. well except when you guys are talking to me like this which is new.

 

[Jimmy1]

Elise, the hard part as you well know is that most veterans especially in here don't actually talk about the trauma's that caused their PTSD. Occasionally you will get one or two if its really bugging them, but like all military, its a case of 'Suck It Up', that's why we don't talk about it.

We do talk about ways to deal with anxiety, depression, stress, relationships, children, medication and the list goes on and on.

As we are all over the globe and all suffer from Insomnia, sometimes you can get 10 people in chat. What you will notice is that there are usually 30-40 people online, but most are guests. Usually spouses who read the posts they have access to. Others are veterans who are not ready to join.

If you really have questions you can individually message people, but I will warn you now, it takes a while for some of the guys and gals to build up trust and I will tell you why.
We get all types signing up as members here. We get teenagers who want gory stories, we get other non veterans with PTSD who think they belong here, but you yourself will work out the difference between veterans and non veterans, that is why we have a separate forum. We also get veterans who are too sick to function here. Its a self moderated forum and if you have an issue with someone you just have to talk nicely. If you feel you are being attacked personally, there is a report button which goes straight to Anthony, the site creator and admin.

So, give it a bit of time for people to read your posts and get to know you, then you can organise to meet in chat.

You will also find when we are having a bad time, some of the veterans will only read posts and won't answer until their heads are back on.

If you read, and there is days of reading, you will find that a lot of us have lost relationships, a lot of us wanted our careers and were robbed, but we all served our countries which we should be proud of.
I also know how you feel a bit, I was a single father for a while and my boy was almost taken from me due to neglect. I was in a very dark place.
He is now 14 and would not leave me for the world. He has been classed as having secondary PTSD, or symptoms of it, namely stress, anxiety and anger problems.

Hope this is useful info.

 

[Anglesachse]

Hi GI. and welcome to our dysfunctional family.

I think another reason why so many of us don`t realy use the chat room is down to the fact, you have more control over the stuff that triggers you, and also the fact that we are from all over the globe. There are blokes on here like Jimmy and Athony who are Ausies, Zip`s a canuck, Alan from the Baltic, Wagon Scandinavia, Sarg, red and Jar like youself are from the US. Myself , Ned and few others are Brits. so getting us online together is a bit of an act.

Besides in the threads no one can be put on the spot, I must admit (for myself) if had been in the chat and you had started with all the questions with Who are you? where ya from? where were you in combat? etc. I would have gotten real shity with you real quickly. Having read through the threads though, I can see you in a different light, and can talk normaly. Hope you understand what I mean. It ain`t personal just how a lot of us are.

So yeah, welcome aboard, take a pew and laze a while.

 

[BV101]

Hello GI. Welcome to the club nobody wants to be a member of! But here we are, we happy few. We kind of get each other through things. There are some great people on here. And there is me as well.

 

[Ned]

Welcome Elise.

 

[Xaosoul]

Welcome to the party Elise.

 

[gibrokedown]

I like that the soldiers/marines of the world have come together to fight this as a unit. thank you all for welcoming me, and seeing I am not a fraud or want to interrogate anyone about your experiences. You all seem like an awesome group to be a part of and I'm glad I found you all. I will be bringing in a mate from England who has combat ptsd bad like I do. he is my touchstone for the really bad stuff. but he could find this site to be as comforting as I do, I'm sure of it.

 

[rossjall]

Welcome Elise.

 

[gibrokedown]

thank you rossjall :)

 

[JarHed]

Although we've kind of already met, thought I'd give you the official "hi there" and welcome aboard. We do give out custom sized straight jackets. :ROFLMAO: think we even have one with some sparkly sequin things on it.

I see you were trained on the flame thrower. How can you not love that weapon. Actually used one in nam a couple of times, not officially of course. Then you smell like diesel fuel for a month.

This is the only place that I can literally say what's on my mind and people don't get all upset when you do.