Ptsd..........

it is true that pstd can come from many different domains... and also true - its a 'figment of one's imagination'. we cannot choose our experiences all the time. sometimes a person experiences something larger than what we know should fit in the <cell element> referred to as "happy life". This event(s) may or may not have anything to do whatsoever with our actions or choice of actions...sometimes shit happens to us and we just get away from the bullshit and try our best to forget about it upon recognition.
oftentimes if a person enters a domain, it is relative to their path in life, whether they chose the path or domain willingly. We only choose to continue life despite what has happened before. some people are haunted and some people are not. it is best to just kill off those demons before they infect the lives of others.
Cannabis is great medicine to get a Person to see the Stress Demons early on before the trauma. but anyone who hasnt lead that perfect life has had days where it was hard to swallow what they were fed as just life itself. it is unfortunate what sometimes happens to our experiences. on those days where it is hard to balance into normality - we get medicated. it is fortunate we got the good plant. The cannabis is almost as abundant as the stress it combats. The good quality cannabis that is...

silasraven said:

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Sorry silas....I didn't read between the lines.......yep went right over my head.

for me, it comes and goes. kids screaming, even when they just having fun can trigger me.

doublejj said:

Sure Neitz......I did that for years.......it wasn't working for me...........

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It's probably not for me either, but it takes time to open up. Everytime I've opened up to people in my life, I've ended up regretting it. Maybe one day...

i was mauled by a pit bull a few years ago. i peed all over myself and spent a couple days in the hospital (where i drove myself, btw). i had never peed because of terror before. i was definitely "off" for over a year with flashbacks and nightmares and i never really discussed with friends how fucked up i was over it . to this day i won't go over anyone's house if they have a dog bigger than a beagle. i'm worried about them sensing something off with me and freaking out. i used to be the type that would waltz right up to a stray dog and make friends. it took 6 months for me to get use of my right hand back and a lot of the scars still have no feeling in them.

i can't imagine what it's like to have repeated trauma over the course of months or years, though. i'm pretty sure i wouldn't do well.

wascaptain said:

for me, it comes and goes. kids screaming, even when they just having fun can trigger me.

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That sounds like sub-threshold PTSD.

NietzscheKeen said:

That sounds like sub-threshold PTSD.

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.........thanks Nietz.....You,ve already started recovery........

PTSD to me, really depends on how you grow up and your experiences, people with a good family and lifestyle is more likely to suffer from it say, a person from a ghetto or a redneck, so in a way Sil has a point.

In yet the Iraqi children play in the street. Same when Iserial was bombing Iran or whoever, I seen children playing, a bomb strikes, and guess what, they have to ignore it because they have been so used to it. Put your average Western there, hell yeah we are gonna suffer from some sort of traumatic experience because it's so new and shocking, so he does have some what of a point, just not all the way, PTSD is still real.

We started to "not care" about the mortars coming in and the cars parked on the side of the road. At some point, you just accept it or become numb to it; maybe that's what's going on with those kids.

The kids I talked to while in Baghdad weren't emotionally healthy either, so don't let the fact that kids will be kids fool you into thinking they are fine.

You'd probably think we were just fine if you saw us in action too. A lot of the problems start when you LEAVE that environment. It's functional while you're there, for the most part, but when you come back and can't keep a job or a relationship and wind up eating out of dumpsters, living in your truck, taking showers from the hoses at gas stations at night... you start to question whether everything is totally ok.

Yeah I'm sure most are dealing with depression over there, just saying they deal with it better since it's all they know, it's been their lifestyle their whole lives.




Example, send Mitt Romney over there and see how he comes.back.

Autistic Austin said:

PTSD to me, really depends on how you grow up and your experiences, people with a good family and lifestyle is more likely to suffer from it say, a person from a ghetto or a redneck, so in a way Sil has a point.

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And it's definitely NOT a figment of ones imagination. May I cite one of the studies I assisted in while in Uni? We were duplicating the findings of any earlier study and arrived at the same conclusion. Rats were placed in separate cages in a hostile environment. The original study used cats. We used a version of a Tesla coil to make noise and light.
At random times the coil would fire and startle the rats. After 6 months, we were able to observe physical changes in the rats brains. They had literally rewired to acclimate to this new hostile environment.

While searching for the study, which I never found, I did find other studies on MJ and PTSD.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/06/11/rat-study-finds-long-term-use-of-antidepressants-may-hinder-treatment-of-ptsd-some-learning/55892.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/20/marijuana-blocks-ptsd-symptoms-in-rats-study/
http://www.ibtimes.com/marijuana-helps-cure-ptsd-rats-soldiers-could-be-next-study-316516
http://tokesignals.com/marijuana-could-prevent-ptsd-symptoms-study/

I haven't read them, so they may all be articles about the same study.

Didn't say they were, that was Sil. I said in a way, he has a point, it depends on how strong your mind is when you go to war but kids and people in general handle the stress way better than we ever could.

New brain imaging equipment has been used to look at the amygdala and the hippocampus. How we learn fear and the formation of memory is what these two places in the brain are involved with.

Autistic Austin said:

Didn't say they were, that was Sil. I said in a way, he has a point, it depends on how strong your mind is when you go to war but kids and people in general handle the stress way better than we ever could.

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smh

Although I am starting to rethink, you shouldn't back down from people terrorizing your land, would always see frustrated US soldier screaming at them all the time because they always wait for us before.fighting, call me a patriot but that is pussy shit.


And now I feel bipolar lol, but it comes back to where you grew up at, we are almost TOO proud when we put on that uniform, well not me lol, but........I have no idea anymore, pretty sure I'm rambling, I agree PTSD exsist tho lol.

mysunnyboy said:

smh

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S M and H?

Autistic Austin said:

Didn't say they were, that was Sil. I said in a way, he has a point, it depends on how strong your mind is when you go to war but kids and people in general handle the stress way better than we ever could.

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Didn't mean to put words in your mouth. My apologies.
I did edit post #31 to address this post, if you want to check back.

NietzscheKeen said:

We started to "not care" about the mortars coming in and the cars parked on the side of the road. At some point, you just accept it or become numb to it; maybe that's what's going on with those kids.

The kids I talked to while in Baghdad weren't emotionally healthy either, so don't let the fact that kids will be kids fool you into thinking they are fine.

You'd probably think we were just fine if you saw us in action too. A lot of the problems start when you LEAVE that environment. It's functional while you're there, for the most part, but when you come back and can't keep a job or a relationship and wind up eating out of dumpsters, living in your truck, taking showers from the hoses at gas stations at night... you start to question whether everything is totally ok.

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That shouldn't happen now days, can't tell you how pissed I got everytime some douche would show up in his uniform for job interviews lol, that was around Christmas time but I pretty much gave up each time that happened.



You did make a good point, I watch alot of those war documentaries and every guy with PTSD says all they want to do is be over there helping or just want to plain shoot, I dunno, maybe I'm focusing on comparing kids with war and the mentality compared to kids, they only know what they see while adults grow and the brain is still evolving?




I dunno anymore lol.

doublejj said:

Are you a veteran silas?.......

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No, but he trained. cn