May 2010 - PTSD: A Soldier’s Perspective

Wartime Trauma Versus Childhood Trauma

For the last year or better whenever I am stressed or have highly emotional experiences I find myself being brought back into my wartime memories, flashbacks, emotions and perspective. I was having a conversation the other day with someone close to me...

Published Fri, May 07 2010 2:28 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: substance abuse, therapy, trauma

All Battle Cries Confront

It is hard for me to ask for help...there, now I said it. Maybe the reason I have stayed away from writing here is that I fear for the honesty that I feel compelled to share here. Denial, hell yeah that's what I am talking about. Let's get it...

Published Mon, May 10 2010 10:03 AM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Barriers to Care, attachments

God, I Love Words!

I received this 'legal letter' email from a Professor at the University of Louisville. I will sarcastically narrate her email without really saying what is written. Her letter basically says that, Uh, seems like you may have mentioned something...

Published Tue, May 11 2010 12:13 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: my life

PBS's Frontline Season Finale: The Wounded Platoon

FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES A CLUSTER OF MURDERS, VIOLENT CRIMES, MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS AND DRUG ABUSE AMONG A PLATOON OF SOLDIERS RETURNING FROM IRAQ FRONTLINE Season Finale THE WOUNDED PLATOON Tuesday, May 18, 2010, from 9 to 10:30 P.M. ET on PBS www.pbs...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 12:24 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Barriers to Care, PTSD, squad, multiple deployments, Movies

All Of These Voices are Mine

In the last article I was asked by PBS to include the links and possibly a video link to do so. I am having a reaction to this that I have not had in many months. Anger, I want to write some more! So, I put together some snippets together and thought...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 1:59 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: complex PTSD

Reality Check

Have you ever had to do a reality check? Of course, you have who hasn't? Well, the kind of reality checks I had to 'check in from' back in the day, well lest just say that the ones where you actually wake up in another reality and then have...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 3:41 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: PTSD

Growing Cloud Awareness

Some may say Google is an evil thing, but God speaks through the oddest places. This is being reported, and I am willing to admit that it is a bit from a narcissist perspective ((what da lookin incredulous glare)). I was tooling around my StatCounter...

Published Wed, May 12 2010 9:39 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: dissociation

Massive Block Grants to Fund Treatment for Combat PTSD

This post all fits together in some fashion or another...dissociation. If you want to discover my perspective on the whole situation, you will have to read all of the roads herein to understand your war veteran. Dissociation is best written about and...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 1:01 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: dissociation, politics, PTSD rates

Should We Really Throw Our Expensive Prison Forces Against Our Returning Veterans?

I really should have waited, but had to pull the trigger on this one. Didn't want to be scooped if I'm to be honest ... Should we really throw our expensive Prison Forces against our returning veterans? November 2009 VA FACT SHEET says, The most...

Published Thu, May 13 2010 5:07 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Combat Values Theory, war, veterans, crime, Check the Facks, combat

My Army was Not Your Army and I Thank God for That, PASP(1)

PASP(1) is operated by Scott A. Lee, Editor in Chief. Blogger, student of social work with a unique perspective on Combat PTSD. As a Gulf War I veteran, I fought the Iraqi Republican Guard in three campaigns within 100 hours of sustained combat, after...

Published Sat, May 15 2010 12:02 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: PASP(1)

Malinger My Ass

ma·lin·ger (m -l ng g r) intr.v. ma·lin·gered , ma·lin·ger·ing , ma·lin·gers To feign illness or other incapacity in order to avoid duty or work. [From French malingre , sickly .] My perspective of this comes from people of 'high' education still...

Published Sat, May 15 2010 2:13 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: malinger

The Tidal Forces of PTSD

PASP's Response to Associated Press's "PTSD is Real, PTSD Fraud is Not" AP say's: Department of Homeland Security. "They'd rather pay and chase." Referring to whether or not, we combat veterans, would ever fucking run...

Published Tue, May 18 2010 5:13 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: PTSD, malinger

Check the Facts About Combat PTSD

The CSRA Wounded Warrior Care Project needs funding to spread throughout the country to aid the soldier and veteran who needs the most urgent care. In your neighborhood a combat mentally disabled veterans needs your help, she has been lost in an alien...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 4:05 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Check the Facks, wounded Warrior Care Project

Men Are From Mars, Combat Vets Are From... ?

Communication comes in many guises; men communicate differently than women, disparities we try to recognize and appreciate in our partners to better understand just where they are coming from. And then there's the combat veteran... a whole other beast...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 7:19 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: A Wife's Perspective

STUCK IN THE SAND - PTSD and College

WTF? Go away. Take your flashbacks with you. Dear PTSD, Why did you hate me today? I was sitting in a lecture hall, paying attention to the lecture, taking notes, and you decided it was flashback movie time. You hit play, again and again. I did my best...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 8:30 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Barriers to Care, experiencing ptsd