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pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
15. You know I love you, Victor
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 04:53 AM
Sep 2015

But I have to tell you that the problem is not just them--it's YOU. You can't expect everyone to change to adapt to your PTSD. If you REALLY want to make your family situation work, YOU can make it work.

I credit you for all the hard work you've done with with therapy, but you know something is still wrong.

I lost a long marriage to my PTSD from Vietnam. You DON'T have to lose yours. The worst thing for a vet in your shoes is to just accept that "This is just the way I am" instead of understanding that "I can be better than this."

If your therapists are not helping you to manage your trauma reactions, maybe you need new therapists. Or maybe you need a new you. And that's not a joke. You really can change this shit.

You don't have to be a constant victim of war trauma. It will always be there, but you can choose to change things. Like me, you served as a platoon officer, in charge. As hard as it is, you need to take charge again.

Wishing you all the best, brother.

My dad was. He wouldn't ever talk about it. PatrickforO Sep 2015 #1
My dad never spoke of it until late in his life nadinbrzezinski Sep 2015 #2
What is there to say......? jaysunb Sep 2015 #3
Plenty, brother pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #6
Only though this site have I been able to open up a bit madokie Sep 2015 #18
I get by with the help of my friends--including you and our other brothers here pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #22
It took a while for me too, but, like you, after some years jaysunb Sep 2015 #21
You wern't there FreakinDJ Sep 2015 #4
Were you? pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #5
I certianly know way more than Eko Sep 2015 #7
Do you TALK to them? pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #8
As much as we can. Eko Sep 2015 #9
I have caught several on DU. former9thward Sep 2015 #10
I've found people will often use your military service against you Victor_c3 Sep 2015 #11
There arent any magic Eko Sep 2015 #12
Thanks for your service and the yellow ribbons are total BS and completely meaningless YabaDabaNoDinoNo Sep 2015 #13
/\_/\_This right here_/\_/\ Scuba Sep 2015 #20
I am so sorry that you are going through this rough time.... Ghost in the Machine Sep 2015 #14
You know I love you, Victor pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #15
Victor, you have my number, and I can PM msanthrope Sep 2015 #16
I know hundreds... trumad Sep 2015 #17
I was never a combat vet, I was a paper pusher in the AF for 22 years MrScorpio Sep 2015 #19
A neighbor of ours when I was a kid Snobblevitch Sep 2015 #23
90% plus of the military is rear echelon. tabasco Sep 2015 #24
So true GP6971 Sep 2015 #30
The "thank you for your service" thing... rppper Sep 2015 #25
dad served in the korean war shanti Sep 2015 #26
My dad served on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific during WWII. Maedhros Sep 2015 #27
My husband is a 21 year Army veteran vankuria Sep 2015 #28
My uncle was a flight engineer/top turret gunner on a B-17 over Germany. Archae Sep 2015 #29
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