What do you think about combat PTSD?

Friends that dont have it were heavily involved in war. Deployed to Afgan, multiple tours. "Put me in again" mentality.

Friends that do have it couldn't handle it from the start.

I don't think it happens after years of being in war, i think it's early onset and I think the shame of being unable to handle it is what hurts them the most and why they don't like to talk about it.

This is just from the few friends I know whom were in the service 2004-2012ish so this is just what I've observed. Good chance it's not accurate.

Interesting insight nonetheless,
Thank you.

How do psychologist figure out you have it?

I think stuff happens over their that thay don't talk about or are not allowed to that really fucks them up. Their actually building a veterans home for drug rehab 3 houses down from my home holds 15 people. I live in pa

I saw a documentary thay just hand out pills. Your sad have some pills.

So, i have it and I was diagnosed with ptsd and anxiety. Basically I just vented to my therapist about things that "triggered" me. for instance, big crowds trigger my anxiety and loud noises can make me flinch. Hard to explain, but certain noises make my stomach drop hard. I don't have flashbacks that leave me on the ground shaking or anything like that like you see in movies. I just get close to panic attacks depending on the situation. I was at a strip club once and being in the dark surrounded by people made my chest feel really tight and gave me a feeling of panic.

Their becoming suicididal becouse of the pills

i got anxiety medication and i meet with a therapist once a month

Did it work

Not really but maybe its because my PTSD isn't super severe. It took a long time for me to ask for help because I thought i could tough it out. What helps the most is just deloading everything onto someone. Talking about what stresses me out and whatnot. As long as i can do that every once in a while thats all i need.

I want to hear more like this to compare how psychologist find out. Or just give out meds so you can go away. Maybe even give you $500/month for it til you eventually commit suicide

It’s all bad

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So you have no firsthand knowledge of psychiatry, got it.

Watch better documentaries. Some psychologists do great work, some shoddy work, just like ANY other profession.

Stop joining foreign wars. Pull out the US presence from foreign countries. End all involvement outside of direct attacks on the US itself. The next generation would have many fewer victims of war with PTSD.

This. It's fucked.

You make perfect sense. Its good to know that a E-1 in the military has 100% political power of the senate and congress. Its also easy for a lowly grunt to just say, "nope, not going." and their command will just nod their head and straight up not deploy because 1 or 2 people in their unit out of 1000 doesn't want to go.

My therapist was great. She just gave me meds for my anxiety but she was pretty adamant about having me come in frequently to talk about what i was going through. It seemed pretty genuine to me.

You can get paid to have PTSD? Why? How?

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disability

Do you really get $500 a month? Seems kind of low.

It's not a set rate. The army and the VA give you a percentage based on how much they determine you are disabled due to service related injuries or ailments. I got 30% for my back, knees, and lungs. Its not a ton of money only like 2,000 a month, but it gives me hiring preference when applying for government jobs.

How long were you in therapy? Do you go every month?
When did they diagnose you?

Its true that those that have it don't live very long. I say 10-20 years later, they paint their walls with their brains.

for a few months before getting out and i don't really go anymore.

they diagnosed me 6 months before i got out.

They put on you any meds? Having to take anti-depressants for life?

It looks quite serious. "Hard" to un-grain that behaviour is an understatement. Was going down the highway with buddy and we hit a real nasty pothole that went KA-BANG and he immediately slunk down and started the upswing of evasive maneuvers - I (civilian) on the other had saw the unlit headlights from a long ago head on collision and reclined my seat all the way down in a desperate attempt to avoid impact - as he was trying to bring his seat back he started to say he didn't know where the IED was before or after us yet and started to as if I was hit because he needs cov - and that when saw I wasn't in combat uniform, and this wasn't Afghanistan. What I had was just a flash but his was a few seconds. If I didn't recline my seat

Right after that I remembered something too. 3 different veterans told me when I was young that they can't go to sleep without drinking a lot of alcohol because if they don't they dream they're right back in the mustard gas struggling for their lives as they scream endlessly in their beds.

If you haven't been in a combat zone. You don't have a serious opinion worth talking about.

I wish my penis was shorter

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>If I didn't recline my seat he said he said he wasn't sure if he'd be back soon enough to stop an accident.

Why would you recline the seat? You can't recline seats in humvees. So how is that a natural reaction to a IED?

just dont join the troops lol

Humans judging themselves and life very critically using the power of the Bible= ptsd

I hate talking about it. The meds they give me scare me in the sense that I might snap or some shit and can't control it because my mind is bent. I have a daughter. That fear that I might hurt her or some shit....it's unbearable. It scares me.