Combat/Forces-related PTSD

[wr6133]

[chickenstrip]

I want a refund on my youth. Then I can seek glory by climbing Everest, or going to Mars, or...something. Maybe become a billionaire. Yeah, that's it, by this time next year, if we had our youth back we'd be...

Ok, probably not
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[superstacker]

[bhinso]

[Hetzer]

Eight weeks in Bosnia (pretty much daily contact), zero PTSD. Fifteen months in a Japanese concentration camp, ten of which in solitary (they called it a remand prison, bless 'em), yeah, I had that shit. Funnily enough the DMT (that was taken for shits and giggles, not therapy) was both the most transcendental and horrifying experience (three major trips in one hour, first two to paradise, third to the edge of the abyss), one that really did trigger the underlying PTSD in all its glory (for around two fucking years until I finally lost my rag with it and blew it out with incandescent rage).

I think genius-level IQ (as an indicator of something/whatever more meaningful) might be a help. And an INTJ personality. The average squaddie doesn't have the intellectual tools unfortunately.
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[chickenstrip]

[hellkat]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[hellkat]

I really am extremely grateful to you guys for this input.

Aside from the personal aspect of it, seeing how you are coping with what you've experienced, its given me the opportunity to review what I've been told (not much) and to sift through what might be psychosis, madness, or just lies. And what might genuinely be someone struggling to get through to the happier end of a depressive episode.

What I'm finding really disturbing is the apparent ease (if you can call it that) with which suicide is discussed both here and with the conversations I have had recently. The factualness of suicide as a likely outcome, its frightening. At the moment I am not especially emotionally invested, but I can see how if you were married to or very close friends with someone going through this, or other aspects of PTSD, then it must be very distressing. I already find myself concerned at the amount of times that the "two gun-fingers under the throat" gesture is used to denote "I've had enough and it may well go this way".

Thank you.
For everything, I mean for not only entering that career (for "queen and country" whatever _... and really, I have to wonder how long that level of patriotism lasts once those sort of experiences have been had!

... but also for the thought and bravery that adding your input may have taken for you have given responses on this post.

I'm really fucking humbled.


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[hellkat]

Funny how stuff affects you differently once you have a personal input regarding a subject, innit.

Hmmm.

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[MCN]

TLDRA

I would suggest Shell-Shock (PTSD) is similar to a mental breakdown.
One worse than the other depending on how it affects one's existence.
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