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i just read an article that spoke to my own experience living a lifetime of PTSD after growing up in war from age 9-15 in close urban combat in my neighborhood all those six years.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/07/20362779-all-they-can-do-is-scream-syrian-refugee-children-struggle-in-lebanon?lite
It could be about any number of countries, but this story's about Syria. I DO NOT post this as commentary on the political debate about whether the US ought to bomb Syria or not. That gets all the air time.
What it made me think about is that I'm 55 years old now. I was blessed to survive the war just narrowly with my life. I am grateful.
But the war's been with me every day since through flashbacks (which I had at breakfast this morning again), panic attacks, a heightened startle response, all the symptoms we discuss here all of the time.
I've been hospitalized 3 times in my life for PTSD since surviving the war itself. Sometimes because I began passing out from the simple intensity of a panic attack triggered by a memory I couldn't avoid no matter how hard I tried.
And like the kids in this NBC news story today, I wasn't a soldier, nor was I an adult who could vote for or against the politicians who commanded soldiers one way or another. I was just a kid.
It's sad we keep planting the seeds of PTSD in more kids like I was, because it bears bitter fruits for decades to come. I know.
Just needed to have a place to express my sadness, and thought here would be the best place I could think of. I wish my words were more uplifting. I hope someone will be good enough to come up alongside me here, though I know I am not bringing happy thoughts to the table this time, as I try to do most often.
We vent anger a lot here. Now, though, I guess I'm venting grief, I suppose, for these kids. Since I know from experience what they're in right now and, sadly, what lies ahead even as they survive the war they're raised in.
I hope someone will be good enough to come up alongside me here, though I know I am not bringing happy thoughts to the table this time, as I try to do most often.
God help us all as we look for ways to change the spiraling of violence in each generation.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/07/20362779-all-they-can-do-is-scream-syrian-refugee-children-struggle-in-lebanon?lite
It could be about any number of countries, but this story's about Syria. I DO NOT post this as commentary on the political debate about whether the US ought to bomb Syria or not. That gets all the air time.
What it made me think about is that I'm 55 years old now. I was blessed to survive the war just narrowly with my life. I am grateful.
But the war's been with me every day since through flashbacks (which I had at breakfast this morning again), panic attacks, a heightened startle response, all the symptoms we discuss here all of the time.
I've been hospitalized 3 times in my life for PTSD since surviving the war itself. Sometimes because I began passing out from the simple intensity of a panic attack triggered by a memory I couldn't avoid no matter how hard I tried.
And like the kids in this NBC news story today, I wasn't a soldier, nor was I an adult who could vote for or against the politicians who commanded soldiers one way or another. I was just a kid.
It's sad we keep planting the seeds of PTSD in more kids like I was, because it bears bitter fruits for decades to come. I know.
Just needed to have a place to express my sadness, and thought here would be the best place I could think of. I wish my words were more uplifting. I hope someone will be good enough to come up alongside me here, though I know I am not bringing happy thoughts to the table this time, as I try to do most often.
We vent anger a lot here. Now, though, I guess I'm venting grief, I suppose, for these kids. Since I know from experience what they're in right now and, sadly, what lies ahead even as they survive the war they're raised in.
I hope someone will be good enough to come up alongside me here, though I know I am not bringing happy thoughts to the table this time, as I try to do most often.
God help us all as we look for ways to change the spiraling of violence in each generation.
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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First, I hope everyone is doing well, and continuing to fight that good fight! Keep up the great work on yourselves; I'm rooting for all of you!So, I started doing therapy at the beginning of the year, when I was in my most depressed state, but with my therapist, I made big changes and steps in the right direction. But, over a month ago, she couldn't take my insurance anymore, and I had to stop...
What is more, the undeclared wars on our own city streets are still raging.
I will join you in that prayer for ways to change the spiraling of violence in each generation. Healing wishes for all. No exceptions.
And healing wishes out to all the tinies out there today hurting.
Yes. Yes. Heartfelt healing wishes for their daily strength from now on.
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I am disheartened and shocked and angry when the news briefly and dismissively mentions the moral imperatives and then gleefully digs into the political implications for the next elections of our involvement in Syria.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
The little ones...God help them...
My first husband the same aftermath nightmares, then loss of control of him. Also losing a step brother to suicide, from being sent home early. Though none of us know why he did it for sure, I do know of his pride of being a Marine, so to be asked to leave may have been part of his reasons.
Never the less many here are casualties of what our parents passed on to us, when they saw no way out.
I hope strong minds will consider that this dirty bomb that was used, is not something that we can control yet. If retaliation comes back because of intervention, they will probably use this again.