
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
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4 Tours to the Middle East I need help!!!

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I have just finished up my 4th and final tour to afghanistan. Ive been to Iraq twice also. Im in the infantry and have done alot of bad things. I started showing signs of PTSD on the way back over there in the airport. I was dropped off at a County hospital mental ward and locked up for 5 days. They began to dump pills in me and my "army" abadoned me. Now they want to AWOL me and kick me out. Is this how THEY do it? Use us for death and destruction and then dump us in a mental ward? Some one help me!!!
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*hugs* i wish i could do more to help.
Take care.
If it was a VA Hospital, they already know what's going on, so you need to talk to a Patient Advocate. They have offices inside the VA Hospital. If you aren't getting what you need, contact your local VFW. They have advocates that fight for veterans' rights.
You have an illness that is just as real as if it were cancer. VA knows this. Just keep fighting to get what you need. DON'T GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tell your primary doc you need to see a phychiatrist. They will help you.
My husband fought his PTSD for years. Made my life absolutely miserable, but I love him and we got through it. You can too.
He now receives disability from VA and disability from Social Security.
My son just did 5 years in the Navy as a crew chief on the fixed wing aircraft that delivers mail, personnel and supplies back and forth from the ship he was on (Nimitz).
He isn't having a really good life right now either. He has told me that he is either going to have to go for treatment or go back in the Navy, where things are familiar to him.
God Bless you for your service to our country and to each individual that enjoys freedom because of your sacrifices.
I am sorry you were treated like that. So not right.
I feel so terribly bad for all the men and women that have/are serving in the war that are coming back with PTSD....it's like it's becoming an epidemic for all the soldiers...and something needs to be done about it...not look over it. It's real.
I think the VA IS FINALLY taking notice of PTSD and is doing lots and lots of research on PTSD right now. I try to keep up with the VA website, as their research can help us in the civilian community as well.
I suggest you do as some of the others suggested, go to the VA center. There are a few other Military Vets on here...and some that are fresh from war....I encourage you to talk with them too. I'm sure they will help you along the military way to get help.
I don't believe a mental ward is the right place to treat PTSD, but if one is suicidal, that is the safest place to be.
They have outpatient therapy and intensive outpatient and inpatient residential programs available. There was also an article about Cognitive Processing Therapy that was released from the Cincinnati VA a few months ago that showed that the Processing therapy worked better than Behavioral therapy.
With the right meds, right therapy and a good support system....you can begin your Journey to Heal.
Don't give up...help is out there...Find it and start on the road to recovery.
We're here for you too.
Here's some DS members that I know of that are Military Vets...look them up...they'll help you!
Kellybugster
Dirty3rd
Milkywayexpress
Rangersniper
---I'm sure there's more, those are the ones that came to the top of my head!
Good Luck!
My hubby a Vietnam Vet went to one about compensation for ptsd , ocd and other things and these ppl helped him so much...
It takes about four to six months to recieve anything for this but its worth the wait in the end...
So get ahold of the Veterns Affairs ppl nearest you or have somoene that can help you do this if your in some mental place and can't do for yourself as they can go though the red tape quicker then anyone else can...
Good luck in getting a much deserved HONORABLE DISCHARGE and thank you for keeping us free...