tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084876361608306937.post8961591241064192445..comments2024-02-26T19:17:44.872-08:00Comments on Living with PTSD and TBI: Magic 8 Ball of PTSDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084876361608306937.post-58036705887010424182010-08-18T09:48:34.257-07:002010-08-18T09:48:34.257-07:00Hello and thanks for all you are doing.
Since you...Hello and thanks for all you are doing.<br /><br />Since your last visit to Gift From Within we've added new materials. I was not you knew about our new PTSD webcasts. Here is the link:<br />http://www.giftfromwithin.org/html/webcasts.html <br /><br />Warm regards, JoyceJoycehttp://www.giftfromwithin.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084876361608306937.post-52688954087553376742010-07-26T13:56:01.213-07:002010-07-26T13:56:01.213-07:00USM, humility is also an enduring quality you have...USM, humility is also an enduring quality you have and one needed in a Combat PTSD Home. A battle of attrition has an enormous cost and a Combat Vet is the best at this. <br /><br />A battle of who is right is not always about, what is right and that has to give way many times. I know that meant for my significant others to defer to me, this I have come to learn has been what I inflicted on my family years ago. We bring it home and we hurt the ones we love the most and still don't know how to turn it off. We can learn, educate and share to move past most of the negative effects o f war given possibly many years. <br /><br />A shared reality, we all have a common bond, you might as well been with us in combat. We bring it home and wreck havoc with it and then we check out because the fallout is to great. <br /><br />We leave it to you, the spouse and caregiver of a shattered mind who once was the love, to clean up the mess. Do not think that this goes unnoticed, when we have those lucid moments when we 'come home' and share with you our deepest being, where we reside on the inside of this shattered mind. <br /><br />You're not crazy for thinking that different people show up in the same man or woman you loved before war, we are still in there, but we also brought home the monster war made us. And sometimes we do not know how to turn it off when we first come home. This is who we are, the Combat PTSD Vet. Thank you for being who you are Combat PTSD Homes! By ourselves we can move a pebble, together we can move mountains.Scott Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17861938200417302754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084876361608306937.post-76308586723807315362010-07-23T15:39:09.699-07:002010-07-23T15:39:09.699-07:00I think it makes it harder when you don't have...I think it makes it harder when you don't have the family's understanding. No matter what you say or try to explain, they only take it at face value. You feel unsupported and sorta shafted. It makes it harder to face everything alone as well because in most cases, let's say a serious illness, the family would have your back. I am keeping the hope that things will get better and that I will find what I am seeking. LOL @ PPatty, sure girl...come on it and take a load off!!!!Uncle Sam's Mistresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01179663021921239430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084876361608306937.post-21540690805168318762010-07-23T12:56:53.349-07:002010-07-23T12:56:53.349-07:00I agree it is very lonely and the family def. has ...I agree it is very lonely and the family def. has never understood. It breaks my heart that you all are going through this. It is exhausting mentally and emotionally. It never seems to end but at this point I am starting to have hope for myself and for you all as well. Just stick it out I think it will get better.Wife of a Wounded Soldierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113425984851489988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084876361608306937.post-72978779699761997792010-07-23T11:40:27.178-07:002010-07-23T11:40:27.178-07:00Thanks USM
Everything you have written is spot on...Thanks USM<br /><br />Everything you have written is spot on as usual. It DOES make a difference to know we are not alone, even if we will never meet each other IRL. <br />The excessive spending, infidelity, alcoholism, constant cursing and blaming and major shift in the bedroom, and now, huge weight gain and lack of motivation, to name a few have always been difficult and confusing, but what made matters worse was the lack of understanding of those who love me.<br /><br />They want to see me something besides miserable, so they try to convince me that my husband was always this way, I just did not know him well enough before OEF and OIF (not true, 6 year relationship prior to combat) and that I need to leave him like yesterday.<br /><br />I have instead detached with love and have begun focus on myself to improve my own mental health and wellness so I can fulfill all of my hopes and dreams on my own, but still at his side and cheering him on as he chooses life, even if it is a long hard wait.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084876361608306937.post-52871301412037100482010-07-23T10:11:28.244-07:002010-07-23T10:11:28.244-07:00I concur with anonymous! I feel totally "at ...I concur with anonymous! I feel totally "at home" here (mind if I put my feet up?).<br /><br />:)Peppermint Pattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16135826412904028895noreply@blogger.com