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You sound like a sweet girl. I'm gonna go ahead and shoot straight with you here. Run the gently caress away from this as fast as you can. Take some time to take care of yourself and focusing on yourself, and caring primarily and mostly, about yourself. You can't always beat PTSD. Treatment resistant PTSD is the MRSA of mental health, and has comparable mortality rates if you really drill the gently caress down into it. The drugs are barely more effective than placebos, and that's true across the board. Don't waste anymore time on this pre packaged tragedy. You want to join the PTSD pain train? Finding him with a bullet in his head one day and the walls painted with his brains is a quick trip to uncontrollably bad anxiety and invasive thoughts. I'm sorry you love a broken man, and that he has turned you into a care taker and co-dependent. But you've got to get the gently caress out and put this behind you. Run away. I'm giving you the best advice your gonna get. Trust me.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 14:47 |
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# ¿ May 3, 2024 02:11 |
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Alcohol rarely solves or betters a problem, for whatever that's worth.
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# ¿ May 26, 2017 12:03 |
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McNally posted:My best friend killed herself last night. gently caress.
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# ¿ Aug 28, 2017 22:59 |
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Someone make the new thread and ill sticky it. Just PM me when your done posting it.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2018 06:03 |
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Thalantos posted:I mean, at this point it's less than 30 days until my appt. I assume your also broke brain like me. If you need someone to talk to just PM and I’ll give you my cell. You can call or text me anytime and talk about this poo poo. I’ve been through it all when it comes to psychiatry up to and including ECT and doing the Thorazine shuffle. I’ve been stable and in control of my emotions and moods for about 4 years now. I totally know what it’s like not to be in control of these things. Just reach out if you need someone to talk to.
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# ¿ Sep 30, 2018 03:03 |
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Cole, I’ve essentially watched you grow up from a young soldier to the successful man you’ve become today thanks to these forums. Try not to be too critical of yourself, because you have come a long drat way and deserve to feel pride in all that you’ve done. I hope you get to feeling better, brother.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2019 16:17 |
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Good to hear, cole.
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# ¿ Mar 24, 2019 22:13 |
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Ziji posted:I tried PM'ing OP for slack access, but it says their account can't receive PMs. Is there anyone else I can PM? I'm in a bit of a spot and looking for some support. We don’t do slack anymore to my knowledge, it’s Discord. I don’t have PM’s or know how to invite you but I posted an @everyone message letting them know about you. Someone should hook you up, but it’s late and a work night so it might be a little bit.
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2019 07:54 |
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That’s great to hear, brother.
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# ¿ Aug 24, 2019 22:29 |
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No? Why would there be? You served over 8 years right? Anything wrong with you at the end of your service if you did at least 8 years is presumed service connected, including ADHD.
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# ¿ Sep 25, 2019 04:44 |
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Would you mind posting details of your EMDR experience?
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2019 05:20 |
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Please tell me the coke your using is Cola and not booger sugar. Please.
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2019 02:38 |
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Woofer posted:taking a break from the forums. probably gonna go join the protesters in DC. Monty is going to be awfully scared and alone when you wind up in 72 hours of lock up or in a hospital from police or military brutality. They’re sending AD army troops to D.C. You literally can make no difference what so ever by getting your rear end pepper sprayed and beat with a baton. But you can make sure Monty feels safe and happy and loved. My vote is you stay home with Monty, and find ways to help online. I don’t doubt you can handle yourself, but think of Monty.
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2020 13:18 |
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You have an amputation? Did you medically retire or was it a medical separation? I assume your on PDRL if you have an amputation, that means you can opt for TriCARE in lieu of VA Care. I highly, highly, recommend doing so.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 20:58 |
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Cenen posted:Things are not going loving good I have no idea where to loving start. Start from the beginning. No judgement gets cast here.
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2021 02:34 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I saw your post, but I'm not exactly the brain you should be picking. Similarly I’ve not met a USAF spouse from Michigan that wasn’t down to swing. I’m not even being gender specific, I’m just saying spouses. Every time there was swinger drama when I lived on base, there was folks from Michigan involved. I’m sure it’s a weird coincidence, but the plural of anecdote is evidence so 🤷♂️
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2022 22:31 |
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Dude… gently caress If there’s any way I can be of help to you let me know. I’m free to chat or vent to, just pm me and I’ll send you my contact info. I lost two of my girls in the last 2 years- they both made it to 17. They’re only gone when the last person who remembers them and honors them goes. In my family we talk about the girls all the time. That helps me, maybe it could help you? Just spit ballin’ here. Anyway, here to help and be a friend.
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2022 05:39 |
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Hey I know I'm not a regular, but I want to say, the thread title is true and 100% correct. If there’s one place on earth you can let it out, it’s here, brother.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2023 15:22 |
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Talktopus posted:Hi guys. Yooooooo 🚩 alert 🚩 alert 🚩 Nobody in their Goddamn 50’s is a Vietnam combat anything. If they have any combat experience it would be Panama and Grenada and the Gulf War. Possibly GWOT as well but.. yeah. Red flag alert. 2023-59 (my most charitable case here) is 1964. The only combat in Vietnam he saw was on the news. Obviously don’t not help the guy, I’ve done all 13 of the 12 steps and no, not a typo- he’s on the right step, number 4, but he sounds full of poo poo. That’s gonna be a big hurdle for him to jump as you guide him through step 4. There’s actual vets in your AA group aren’t there? I’d be hard pressed not to find them in AA and NA. Dude chose you, a younger, non veteran, for a reason. Probably because he thought you wouldn’t sniff out his bullshit. Now you gotta AA Judo that poo poo and use the momentum of his bullshit to get him to actually take that moral inventory, Vietnam vet bullshit and all, and actually do the 4th step. Ironically it’s gonna be easier to admit that to someone who hasn’t been through combat than to someone who has. Alcoholics are humans after all, and sponsor or not, we have a reputation for coming down hard on those that do the (stupidly named, and dumber act) “stolen valor” thing. And coming down hard, is likely not what he needs! Not on old step 4! I hope that was helpful. LtCol J. Krusinski fucked around with this message at 19:17 on May 23, 2023 |
# ¿ May 23, 2023 19:15 |
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Hekk posted:I think OP was saying that the sponsee is around 50yo and a combat vet. That OP linked the sponsee up with a Vietnam vet. Not that 50yo sponsee was claiming to have been in Nam. Ohhhhhh Well, my advice changes to: Hook him up with a vet if he’s struggling with step 4. Priority list: Also combat vet Similar Age / Time of Service Same or Similar branch Has completed all 12 steps I went to a priest the first couple of times I tried to stop drinking and got to step 4. Not catholic but they were big about being available for AA/NA in the area I was getting sober in. Didn’t work. did but not everyone can do that. My best wishes to your sponsee! I’m sorry for the mix up! LtCol J. Krusinski fucked around with this message at 21:44 on May 23, 2023 |
# ¿ May 23, 2023 21:26 |
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TheWeedNumber posted:dang it Bobby what did we say about working on our reading comprehension skills in class. Hey, I gave up drinking, not failing to R>C>P. I had an old dude try to claim to be a Vietnam veteran after becoming my sponsee (I was like 2 years sober maybe?) and I eventually got him to admit he had never been in the service, he was mentally unstable and not drafted. His brothers had served, however. Naturally one had died in Vietnam, and the other of I think cancer, and he did what I would do, and drank. I don’t actively sponsor anymore, obviously. Thought I could be useful in an edge case, in reality, no. No I cannot.
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# ¿ May 23, 2023 21:43 |
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# ¿ May 3, 2024 02:11 |
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Wasabi the J posted:Hope you cry (in a good way) I snort laughed at this. Because I know exactly what you meant.
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