July 2010 - PTSD: A Soldier’s Perspective

Jesse Dayton: I'm Coming Home

I came across this video by one of the members on Facebook's PASP Community, it really hits home the striking difference we tell others we are OK in the field right before battle. When in fact we are under the most duress we have ever faced, until...

Published Sat, Jul 31 2010 1:56 PM by PASP - Combat PTSD HQ

Filed under: combatPTSDnews, video, Welcome Home, Coming Home

Combat PTSD Home Drafts the Family

To my Sons, you have served your country well, it was I that drafted you into the Combat PTSD Home - You Served and continue to do so, as the forge you have endured has branded you my Noble Sons. So, when a veteran tells another Welcome Home, this you...

Published Fri, Jul 30 2010 1:39 PM by PASP - Combat PTSD HQ

Filed under: my life, A Father's Perspective, Combat PTSD Home

Real Time Facebook PASP Community

Check out the new PASP Facebook Community! Join us as we talk about Combat PTSD in real time in the bottom of the screen here on our new Facebook plugin. Technology is dragging me along slowly but surely, lol. I have been looking for a community forum...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 1:21 PM by PASP - Combat PTSD HQ

Filed under: PASP Facebook Community

Soul Whisperer enters the conversation

I'm one of those people you defended, kept free and safe. Unknowing of your sacrifice, I seemingly went about my random business, accumulating masters degrees while waiting for the next path Stone to be revealed. I learned in September 2001 why I...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 5:17 PM by PASP - Combat PTSD HQ

Family, Friends and the Army

I woke up in a funky mood this morning. Stayed up too late again and so I begin my coffee drip through IV while writing this. Lot of thoughts rolling around this mind of mine last night and for the life of me, just could not clear it to go to sleep! I...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 4:32 AM by PASP - Combat PTSD HQ

PASP - Combat PTSD HQ

Hey everyone! Wake up! We have overhauled AGAIN! (not really just abbreviated the name and added the new moniker. PASP - Combat PTSD HQ; Coalition of Combat PTSD Bloggers - We've got it covered. When I say I personally built this roof, thats exactly...

Published Sun, Jul 25 2010 9:21 PM by PASP - Combat PTSD HQ

Filed under: my life, A Son's Perspective, Combat PTSD, combatPTSDnews, A Father's Perspective, pizza

Uncle Sam's Mistress Confers with her Virtual Eight Ball of Answers

Image via Wikipedia Thank you USM for your honor, courage and sacrifice to all you do for the wives of the military and our country. Uncle Sam can't or won't do it, so we'll have to do it for the ol dead beat. In your honor I unveil my newest...

Published Sat, Jul 24 2010 12:20 AM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Filed under: USM, Intellectual property, VEBA

My Story Will Shatter the Jarhead Myth of the 'Bloodless War' of Desert Storm

Image via Wikipedia It has been almost 20 years and I have finally healed enough and wish to share my war experience. My story will shatter the Jarhead myth of the 'Bloodless War' of Desert Storm. I am a Combat PTSD Veteran of the First Gulf War...

Published Thu, Jul 22 2010 1:20 PM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Filed under: combatPTSDnews, Persian Gulf War, Gulf War, Jarhead

The Tradition of Military Tattoos

Tattoos are Incredibly Powerful Symbols During my time spent working as a Corrections Officer I saw many inmates with homemade prison-style tattoos; human flesh used as prime real estate on which they eagerly advertise their affiliation with a gang, names...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 12:20 PM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Filed under: tattoo, A Reservist Wife Perspective

Patsy Cline, Chardonnay and Dusty Lingerie

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart~ It must be due to hormones, lack of sleep and lack of sex that has made me a little sensitive these last couple of days.....not that I am remotely grumpy, or hateful to anyone...

Published Thu, Jul 15 2010 8:46 PM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

A Soldier's Expectations of Coming Home: The Trap of Flawless Execution

Image via Wikipedia Hell, I made it through combat, going home will be a cakewalk (most soldiers and families). In combat we have this fantasy of coming home and how if we can just get home then everything will be perfect, beware of expectations in ourselves...

Published Wed, Jul 14 2010 9:58 AM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Filed under: Barriers to Care, Combat Values Theory, family, combatPTSDnews, boundaries, understanding your soldier, Veterans Perspective, expectations, TFE

Rules for Combat PTSD Change within the VA Today

Obama Chronicles writes, In the weekly address, President Obama outlined how his administration is making it easier for veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to receive the benefits they need. These new changes in the Department of Veterans Affairs...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 1:35 PM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Filed under: VA, stigma, TBI, Combat PTSD

Introducing One Veteran's Battle: Impaired and Violated

Let me introduce PTSD Caregiver's husband our newest writer! Impaired and Violated An introduction from his website, I'm a veteran of Iraqi Freedom, returning in 2005. I served in Baghdad as a Cavalry Scout, Non-Commissioned officer. I've...

Published Mon, Jul 12 2010 10:20 AM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Filed under: combatPTSDnews, Combat PTSD Vet Perspective

VA Questions

So I have been trying to "help" my husband with his re-appeal of his 40% disability he received from the VA. We are appealing for 100% based on several things, and the Disabled American Veterans are helping us with my husband's case. I hate...

Published Sun, Jul 11 2010 7:50 AM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Blood On My Hands

Image by hive via Flickr You may not see the blood on my hands, but I see it everyday. I cannot wash them enough go get the stains off. ~~ Scott Lee

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 7:04 PM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Filed under: Barriers to Care, guilt