Chuck wrote:
No
wonder I didn't "get it". You guys are into deep philosophicalities here. Bounced right off my head.

blessedmom, I have no doubt you did a good job with your young'ns.

I got's to go to sleep now - I finally wore myself out.
G'night/G'day all!
Postie! Haven't seen you in a while - hope you are well.
Get yourself a clothespin - what with Leek Festival coming up and all.

Reason for it. For not being the usual can't shut his mouth. Was really drained. Been pacing today to try and figure out if I should even say it here. Think I will. But fer keeyrists sake no f*****g pity partys, please. This is good news. Still hurts, but I can fix it, err maybe, lol.
I had an appointment with my Veterns Admin counciler. The prior meeting I was presenting the possiblity of a missed DX, not Bipolor, I said it's AS. He , the counclier did take a peek at WP, I didn't need to convince him anymore. Lol, I was still was trying, but for another reason. I had mentioned PTSD some place around here before, had been writing about it else where. I brought it up to him. He reached for a book, wrong move Dave, I thought. But that's what they do and started to recite things to me. Stop I said, been there done that, this is the one I am. But... He felt like the doc when looking at AS, you have to have that main "moment" the "main defination". Ok I went with it, thinking christ you dork I've been in freaking combat all my life in the NT world. I f*****g didn't fit, what part about that is so hard to see. Seems to be everytime the words New Mexico came out I put an inflction in it. I didn't know it, but he heard it. It was like the words were distasteful in my mouth when they came out. Well that isn't new I do it when I say the word army. Another clue. Since he was looking for that one moment that would be the trigger the cytalist, I couldn't think what it possibly could be. I had been dancing around it with writing, with just that image in my mind and never thought anything of it. It was like didn't everybody live that? When it fianlly came out, my wife who was with me and the coucilor, just did a gasp thing and the longer I tried to paint the image in words, the further away I drifted to that moment in time, and the words stopped, my eyes were on the floor, I got lost there and I wanted to cry. i could have sworn I had told people before, but I guess I never did. it's one of those you had to have been there, had to have lived it. As I look back on what has happened since, one being a major meltdown while in the army, and other things later, it makes some sense. I mean they had me on some heavy duty meds in there and it isn't in my record. My buddies got it out of the records, they thought they were doing me a favor. No drug history in my army days, no shrink visit records, it's all gone, I can understand why they did it. Yeah there was another war going on back then, most just don't know it. There was a war in the army itself, and the brass and the lifers were loosing it. The army was in damn near open revolt. That is the part most don't know, one of the reasons there is a pro army now and one of the very dangers of it being pro. But I degress. Lol, I have an offical, unoffical PTSD at the VA. I don't give a damn if they put it in front of the board and let them put the offical on it. It doesn't matter, I are what I is. Yeah that was very long day, a very long hour, it felt like a f*****g life time.
Like I said else where, the VA unfortantly is way to good at PTSD, after all the army mass produces the f*****g s**t. I'm in good hands. I still don't understand why it's such a horror to others, it didn't feel like it to me at the time. But I didn't tell anybody either.
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