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Anyone suffering from PTSD experience flare ups after the horrible events back in September? The event (fatal car accident) from which I suffer PTSD happened over 10 years ago but the nightmares and jumpiness/reaction to loud sounds came back after that terrible day. Wulf
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Hi DerWulf! > Anyone suffering from PTSD experience flare ups after the > horrible events back in September? The event (fatal car accident) from which I > suffer PTSD happened over 10 years ago but the nightmares and > jumpiness/reaction to loud sounds came back after that terrible day.
Although the events did not raise my stress levels, the local VA folks were overwhelmed with vets with PTSD coming out of the woodwork with increased symptoms. You are not alone. Smile and there will be something to smile about! Nancy
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"DerWulf" <weissw…@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20020612224504.10183.00001850@mb-mr.aol.com… > Anyone suffering from PTSD experience flare ups after the > horrible events back in September? The event (fatal car accident) from which I > suffer PTSD happened over 10 years ago but the nightmares and > jumpiness/reaction to loud sounds came back after that terrible day. > Wulf
Well I know for myself, I’ve been much worse since then. And it seems like lots of people on this group are having a hard time getting it together. I can’t even think straight enough to put together more than a couple sentences. td
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Yeah, the news stuff was bad for me. I didn’t realize it when it happened, but it did make a major flareup for me and others here that have PTSD. Kristine
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I haven’t noticed much increase in symtoms since 9/11. I’d like to ask how you were diagnosed since I believe I have PTSD from a fatal car accident 10 years ago, also. I have been diagnosed with depression, though. Do you still drive? I still do, but do so differently than before the accident even though I was not at fault in the accident. Jeff – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -DerWulf wrote: > Anyone suffering from PTSD experience flare ups after the > horrible events back in September? The event (fatal car accident) from which I > suffer PTSD happened over 10 years ago but the nightmares and > jumpiness/reaction to loud sounds came back after that terrible day. > Wulf
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>I haven’t noticed much increase in symtoms since 9/11. >I’d like to ask how you were diagnosed since I believe I have >PTSD from a fatal car accident 10 years ago, also. I have >been diagnosed with depression, though. >Do you still drive? >I still do, but do so differently than >before the accident even >though I was not at fault in the accident. >Jeff
I was initially diagnosed with depression but it was short term. I got off all meds and am currently on no meds because I can’t stand the physical affects. I will take a sleeping pill occasionally. I was diagnosed with PTSD about five years ago. I couldn’t concentrate, had a feeling of dread, and reacted strongly to loud sudden sounds. I do still drive but definitely differently. I am always afraid something is going to jump out in front of the car or that some big disaster is going to happen. I didn’t drive for quite some time after the accident though. Wulf
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Absolutely!! 911 and its aftermath have been devastating. Used to work in an office tower so I can identify with people looking out their windows, seeing a jet approach at high speed, feeling helpless to control their destiny, feeling the building rock as the plane slams into it, and then seeing the flames and feeling the heat. The wreck is below me. What do I do? Where do I go? How do I escape? Most of us can identify with the trapped airline passengers. They’re sitting in their seats, feeling the plane almost coming apart because of the low altitude stress, and they see flames coming out of the charred north tower. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know where the plane I’m on is heading. As the plane approaches the south tower, do we watch through the window, close our eyes, pray, or panic? I often feel as if I’m a airliner passenger looking though the jet’s window into the eyes of a doomed WTC occupant–for a split-second, our lives are intertwined forever more. And then… It’s like the movie is on constant replay, and I can’t turn it off. Having been taking a class in a 45-floor tower in San Francisco when the 7.1 earthquake struck in 1989 doesn’t help. I remember the darkness, the fears that the building would pancake…running outside and standing two hundred yards away along with thousands of others…thinking that was a safe distance if the building came down…which we learned through the WTC collapse would have been within the "kill" zone when debris scattered for blocks. And those emergency workers–firemen, paramedics, cops–entering those buildings, knowing they may be sacrificing their lives…what courage, what dedication! This week’s news that bin Laden is alive and plans to strike again soon makes me nuts. Makes me want to unleash America’s nuclear weapons on the area of Pakistan where bin Laden reputedly resides now– bombing him in a pre-emptive strike. I try to overcome the 911 emotions through art and prayers for the innocents who died. "DerWulf" <weissw…@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20020612224504.10183.00001850@mb-mr.aol.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Anyone suffering from PTSD experience flare ups after the > horrible events back in September? The event (fatal car accident) from which I > suffer PTSD happened over 10 years ago but the nightmares and > jumpiness/reaction to loud sounds came back after that terrible day. > Wulf
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joseph.anderson wrote: >Makes me want to >unleash America’s nuclear weapons on the area of >Pakistan where bin Laden reputedly resides now– >bombing him in a pre-emptive strike. >I try to overcome the 911 emotions through art and >prayers for the innocents who died.
What about the innocents who would die in a pre-emptive strike against Bin Laden? Risa You laugh because I’m different; I laugh because you’re all the same.
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Yeah. I had a pretty bad winter. I’ve been diagnosed with PTSD since 1988 but have suffered from it since young childhood. Saturday was my 49th birthday. I was temporarily living in a motel in Eugene, Oregon on 9/11 and I didn’t notice the flare-up right away. The motel owners were mid-easterners, the nicest people you could meet. My attitude towards them didn’t change but the place emptied out really quickly after that. The most important aspect of my recovery (should say management cause there isn’t a real recovery in store for me) is feeling safe. Emotionally, physically and spiritually. 9/11 threw a huge monkeywrench into the works and it took me 8 months to get back to "normal." Now that I’ve accepted the stupidity of mankind, terrorists and polititians, it’s a little easier to deal with the aftermath of what our country has endured. I just wish I didn’t see so many wounded spirits out there. Judy "DerWulf" <weissw…@aol.com> wrote in message
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All’s fair in love and war…Bin Laden Didn’t care about the innocents from other countries too who where in those towers, on the planes, and on the street. Phuk Bin Lardass and the horse he rides in on. I would blow the middle east off the map if I were president for a day—then I would say ooops I made a screw up…..hey, it would be worth being fired after but at least the scum is eliminated so that we can have a safe life again and our grandchildren and their children and so on. Too bad about bin laden & company the poor innocents over there would be happy to be put out of their misery. They and their children are starving to death, have no medicine or first aid, they have no hope and that’s why they are willing to suicide-bomb etc. Phuk them. "RisaCaitlin" <risacait…@aol.communion> wrote in message
news:20020624094203.07525.00000971@mb-mv.aol.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> joseph.anderson wrote: > >Makes me want to > >unleash America’s nuclear weapons on the area of > >Pakistan where bin Laden reputedly resides now– > >bombing him in a pre-emptive strike. > >I try to overcome the 911 emotions through art and > >prayers for the innocents who died. > What about the innocents who would die in a pre-emptive strike against Bin > Laden? > Risa > You laugh because I’m different; I laugh because you’re all the same.
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