July 2010 - PTSD: A Soldier’s Perspective

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

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

Combat Veterans and Trigger Cues

Image via Wikipedia In a combat zone we look for regular angles in an irregular environment; the child holding a cell phone is, according to the law of probability, a death threat. At home these kind of distorted thinking patterns can become debilitating...

Published Fri, Jul 09 2010 1:14 PM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Filed under: Combat Values Theory, triggers, combatPTSDnews

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

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

Stuttering Returns Post-Iraq

My husband has a pronounced stutter (a previously conquered childhood hardship) which returned with a vengeance post Iraq, but over the last few months I've noticed it getting worse. He sometimes has difficulty pronouncing certain words; for example...

Published Fri, Jul 02 2010 9:11 AM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

Filed under: A Wife's Perspective, PTSD Symptoms

Fireworks and Mental Scars

My husband had disappeared for part of the evening yesterday and I knew he was taking his sweet time coming home because our youngest son is cutting his molars. This has given me high pitched screaming and general fussiness over everything for the past...

Published Sun, Jul 04 2010 8:26 AM by PTSD, A Soldiers Perspective

July 2010 - PTSD: A Soldier’s Perspective

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