ptsd Ongoing Ptsd

[Guest maset2227]

Hi all, I have been gone for a while, I am maset22, returning as maset2227 due to some email issues, anyway, as I have been reading some topics, seems as PTSD, the anxiety, fear, anger, the ability to operate only in a small area of comfort, wow! The hurt of I feel for all of us is hard and real.

Hang in there everyone, for me is ongoing for more than five years, wish it had not. Thanks for Hadit, and all its members for keeping us on track.

[Berta]

Welcome back Maset...and you aptly described PTSD.

"anxiety, fear, anger, the ability to operate only in a small area of comfort,"

and that is why PTSD can isolate and even cause unemployability.

It never goes away, there is no cure, but it can be dealt with to the point that it doesn't completely control us.

It is not a "visible": disability and that often makes it even harder for others to understand.

Plenty of vets at hadit have PTSD .... No one with it here is alone.

[mrs rockman (widow of vet)]

Maset & Berta.

"anxiety, fear, anger, the ability to operate only in a small area of comfort,"

Oh My Gosh!! This really does describe how Rockman was to a tee and to so many of our Veterans here @ Hadit and all others out there. This simply says it all in just 14 words!! Oh how true is this statement !! It really tugs at my heart!

Welcome back Maset and good morning to you Berta!!

Gotta run, for I am on my way to the college for my Vet Center group. I really look forward to every Tuesday's group! It is my extended "family"!

Celia, Mrs. R

[hedgey]

Oh, Maset, you said it!

Especially the "ability to operate only in a small area of comfort" part. PTSD makes your world contract to a tiny cell in time and space. Whenever we are forced to move outside the confines of our safety or someone/something invades it, things fall apart in a hurry.

I hate the fact that I can't even always manage well here, on the Internet, in my own bunker-house. I put my prickly foot in it alllll the time. Luckily, Had-Ites are a forgiving and compassionate lot.

Aren't we all so very lucky to be able to come here and feel like there is someone out there who understands and won't judge us too harshly? Here we can find a king of camaraderie that the rest of the world just can't offer.

[Guest maset2227]

Thanks Berta, Mrs Rockman and hedgey, and all those who read and would have post. I want to salute all of us who battle almost every moment with Ptsd.

My voice here is to try and let us cope and don't give up. I don't have any new insight, just to express care, and well being to all of us; Yes I still battle, as Berta said "It never goes away, there is no cure, but it can be dealt with to the point that it doesn't completely control us." that last part, is the hardest, but keep moving, come to Hadit, express yourself, and you will see you are not alone.

Please all, don't give up. Take care.

[maset22]

Hi all, this is my old account, thanks to a caring member that is very warm to my hearth,

I have an episode that happen to me many times on the golf course, first of all, I try to play on military base, around soldiers, because I trust them. Anyway, I find that I am real anxious with a group in the back of me. Actually I run ahead to get away from them, but because I walk slow due to some physical anomalies, I walk with a battery remote control. As they reach me I let them pass, but off to the races again to get away from the enemy as I see it. Flashback, hearth racing, and I play by myself, sometimes I play with a retiree from the AF

That is PTSD, anxiety at a worst, I love the open space, tranquility, taking my time walking until the movement forces me to walking fast. So the get away I look for is somewhat distracted, now I have that thought until I go home, which was the reason I left home, not to think about my demons.

For us the suffer from physical pain. Where does it goes? It stays with me, my pills help, and I take couple days off, and I warm up most of all, if that does not work, depression kicks in and that is another fight, I talk to a site I don't know if I can mention it here, they are base in NJ. and they help me one and one, I mention this to show a glimpse into my life, don't care how bad it seems, find help and don't give up.

[Philip Rogers]

maset22 - I've had PTSD since VN but never knew it until '89. It never goes away but it can improve. I'm about 55 miles SE of Fayetteville, NC, and would love to meet sometime "soon" for coffee or lunch, if you're up to it?? My treat. I head back up to VT around the beginning of May, so if you're interested, let me know.

pr (aka: Flip)

Hi all, this is my old account, thanks to a caring member that is very warm to my hearth,

I have an episode that happen to me many times on the golf course, first of all, I try to play on military base, around soldiers, because I trust them. Anyway, I find that I am real anxious with a group in the back of me. Actually I run ahead to get away from them, but because I walk slow due to some physical anomalies, I walk with a battery remote control. As they reach me I let them pass, but off to the races again to get away from the enemy as I see it. Flashback, hearth racing, and I play by myself, sometimes I play with a retiree from the AF

That is PTSD, anxiety at a worst, I love the open space, tranquility, taking my time walking until the movement forces me to walking fast. So the get away I look for is somewhat distracted, now I have that thought until I go home, which was the reason I left home, not to think about my demons.

For us the suffer from physical pain. Where does it goes? It stays with me, my pills help, and I take couple days off, and I warm up most of all, if that does not work, depression kicks in and that is another fight, I talk to a site I don't know if I can mention it here, they are base in NJ. and they help me one and one, I mention this to show a glimpse into my life, don't care how bad it seems, find help and don't give up.