Welcome! Wonderful to have you here and share your triumph over alc0hol. It is Hard! Symptoms of bp's pain prior to dx, alcohol is used to self- medicate, people have told me. My step-father was an alcoholic and he too had the same amount of years :-). My best to you!

Hi, Moon. Welcome to the forum.

My own psychotherapy started in earnest in the Army in 1974 in the base infirmary. I was also non-com. Communications. Combat PTSD was still being called "Shell Shock" but the Army shrinks were already making the correlations between civilian shell shock and GI shell shock. The lack of training and support does not make you LESS vulnerable to trauma. My shrink put me in support groups with his official shell shock patients and magic happened. Have I met someone with similar experience?

So or no. . . Welcome to DS.

Welcome to the group moon...... I'm glad you've found us.... There's a great band of folks here..... big hug......xo

Hello, welcome! :-)

I have nothing to add to what has been written above, except welcome to the group! :)

hi, welcome. there are quite a few of us here. i'll say hi - so good you are here.

Welcome, moon. I got PTSD from childhood trauma and then later from combat, too. In my case I was a civilian in a war zone. I've been diagnosed since 1995, so we've got that in common, too. Glad you're with us!

Hello and Thank you everyone. It's a big relief to find you all here. I initially came here because or a recent self test diagnosis for Asperger Syndrome. I'm high functioning and independent having a career etc. I understand that isn't always the case with Aspies. When I saw this PTSD Forum I have to say that I was more pleased to see it than I was the aspies forum. When fear or emotional pain runs my life it is miserable. As a newly accepting of myself as having Asperger's this just explains so much. I was able to tell my mom and step dad and soon my sister and her kids. Lets just say last Thanksgiving is wont that I don't think any of us will forget anytime soon. You know that trapped feeling as a PTSD person? Well i don't really know but I do not back down to any argument. If I feel justified by my actions that someone has a problem with I will be the Judge Jury and Executioner in verbal terms. It can be a nasty compilation. I'm at the fork in the road to life as i know it or life as best as it can be. I'm taking the later. I wan a good life from now on. Hard times just do have to last a life time. Thank again everyone. I will try and chin in where appropriate and listen even more. have a great weekend. Joe