PTSD: A Soldier’s Perspective

Combat PTSD Vets Return to Combat: Easier than Coping Back Home

Comment from a reader on July 24, 2010 from the same dang awesome post I wrote on November 11, 2009. It shares with you a more complete picture or a typical face of Combat PTSD Home and its members; we are the Families of the Combat Veteran. Scott, your...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 1:47 AM by PASP - Combat PTSD HQ

Filed under: Combat PTSD Vet Perspective, Combat PTSD Home, A Friend's Perspective

Advice Given to Caregiver Uncle Sam's Mistress: Fight for Him

Uncle Sam's Mistress over at Living with PTSD and TBI: An Army Wife's POV wrote this incredible article about meeting a Vietnam Veteran on the streets of New York and the advice he gave her. I think everyone who has a veteran in their life should...

Published Wed, Sep 07 2011 12:35 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: inspirations, USM

Wives of Incarcerated Veterans Seeking Candidates for Reality TV Show

A friend and highly respected advocate, Family of Incarcerated Veterans is looking for "Wives of Incarcerated Veterans" for a possible reality TV show. We need to push our message further into the media, this project will deliver a punch of...

Published Sun, May 22 2011 6:05 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: TV, Family Of Incarcerated Veterans, Combat PTSD Blogger

Credo - Needing Feedback for Church-Based Vet Circle

So, here's my hope: That vet-safe circles will spring up in churches throughout the US. Grassroots, each looking different, each vet-safe. I'm a civilian, wasn't there, can't understand, but - like every American - MUST understand if we're...

Published Wed, Sep 15 2010 10:20 AM 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

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

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

One Veteran's Battle, My husband's Blog

Check out my husband's Blog One Veteran's Battle . It has taken a great deal of courage for him to make the transition to openly share his side of the story, he has made his very first post, so please stop by and leave him a comment. Domenica

Published Fri, May 28 2010 10:09 PM by PTSD, A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: VA, complex PTSD, Combat PTSD, Psychologist

PTSD, The Signature Wound of Modern Warfare

In this reposting I am explaining the split within the combat veteran that allows him or her to be "one person" in a moment and then shift into another completely incompatible individual in the same second. This manifestation of opposing self...

Published Sat, Nov 14 2009 10:28 AM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: complex PTSD, Structural Dissociation

The Nightmare Cure

3:30am, I stir in my sleep. Maybe he came to bed already? But my outstretched arm feels no warm body and finds only a cold empty space…..again. I can see light dancing on the wall downstairs, reflecting the muted TV’s flickering images. I slip from my...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 10:03 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Nightmares, Alcohol

I Have No Good Excuses But He Has Plenty

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 You probably thought I disappeared, huh? It's been quite some time since my last blog. I won't waste your time reading up on my lame attempt to make some excuses for my...

Published Sat, Jan 19 2013 8:53 AM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Congressionally Mandated Longitudinal Research on Traumatic Brain Injury

To improve our understanding of TBI in a military cohort by developing a data repository that contains clinical interview, neurobehavioral, neurocognitive, neuroimaging, blood specimen, and sensory/motor data on service members who were injured since...

Published Mon, Jun 10 2013 9:07 AM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: TBI, veterans, studies

Hombrewing as Creative Expression and a Seemingly Counter-intuitive, but Effective Check to Alcoholism

Like most people who come home after deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan I have struggled with alcoholism in the past. By a complete accident I have stumbled onto a great mechanism to develop a healthy relationship with alcohol. My roommate and I took a...

Published Mon, Mar 31 2014 2:40 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: Alcohol, creativit, homebrew

Screw Christmas!

So another Christmas is in the bag, and I am grateful that it passed by with minimal amount of agitation and upset. I’m sure there are other spouses out there whose combat vet was deployed over at least one Christmas, if not more, and finds the holiday...

Published Tue, Jan 19 2010 12:09 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: PTSD, TBI, Hating Holidays, Christmas

The Sow We Reap

How about a dose of reality for myself? Can I truly come to terms with the issues that I face today? Lets see. I have been dissociating quite a bit lately; physical and emotional numbing, and completely shutting down mentally along with feeling alone...

Published Mon, Nov 30 2009 3:30 PM by PTSD: A Soldier's Perspective

Filed under: my life

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