I am the proud father of a 29 year old son who is a full time Texas National Guard Officer and a 27 year old Marine veteran. My son the Marine is no longer serving but suffers from PTSD. He is currently living with my wife and I. He has taken over the basement of our house. He smokes pot on a regular basis, whenever he has money to buy it. He is currently going through the very difficult process of claiming full disability with the VA, it seams that the VA purposely make it hard so that it weeds out the free-loaders (my opinion). Our older son does not have any issues and does not offer much understanding or patience whit his brother. They both were deployed twice to Iraq and experienced similar situations, the older son was in the Army.
Needless to say it is stressful for my wife and I, our son goes in cycles of very little sleep which trigures a manic state and then a very depressed state. We realize that there isn't much we can say, we just have to sit on pins and needles waiting for the rage to subside and he makes the trip to the VA for help.
My wife tries to help but can only do so much. I am more apt to escape to my job. It is a very tiring cycle.
Needless to say it is stressful for my wife and I, our son goes in cycles of very little sleep which trigures a manic state and then a very depressed state. We realize that there isn't much we can say, we just have to sit on pins and needles waiting for the rage to subside and he makes the trip to the VA for help.
My wife tries to help but can only do so much. I am more apt to escape to my job. It is a very tiring cycle.
