To be frank about the G.D Government or even counselors and therapists who work with people having one or more of these disorders,..simply don't know what they are talking about. There is no way of relating to someone like myself (bi-polar and PTSD) on a deep and understanding level unless you have suffered from one of these mental illnesses. My counselor simply knows the "signs" of mania or depression. She has never given me any kind of advice that pertains to my needs, emotions, mania, and seeing "Hell" right in front of your eyes. You first can't believe it, then you may think it's a dream,.finally it sinks in as reality and it has become a total change in the way I view any undescribable horror that I have witnessed losing 29 friends in a lifetime of only 49 years. Look at your best friend as he tries to speak to you for help when he was cut in half while driving the car ahead of us and lost control of his car and flipped off into a desert landscape. Watch as your friends complete right side of his head is suddenly missing as we walked out of a soda straw and he walked between two black men shooting at each other. My friend walked right into the line of fire and he was dead before his body hit the ground. I have "no more tears" I cannot cry over a sad moment or the loss of a friend anymore. God says that He collects all the tears you cry in a lifetime,..he must have a 50 gallon jug full of mine. I can cry in joy. I'm an actor and have learned the techniques to use to cry on cue. But I am not shocked, terrified or effected anymore by loss and death. Nothing fades me. I have seen hell and come back to reality too many times.My theripist says I have unconsciencly lost contact with my inner feelings because I have shut them out. Bullshit. I think about them every day. That therapist would be sitting in my chair if she has witnessed the Hell that I have. Dr.s, Therapists, counselors and so forth, are no worth a can of beans and they cannot help you if they have not experienced what I do and have in my lifetime. They look for the symptoms and come to an answer. They have never helped me and most have been scared away after working with me for just a few months. I am mentally ill but I am a genius. I'll play the "dog and pony" act with any Doctor and I will mentally take charge of their thinking. I can make them believe anything and I can tell them more about themselves than they can about me. I am a mentally ill creative prodigy and I am a genius of the divine human nature. The hell with the government, the Doctors, therapists and counselors. I ain't no white trash piece of ^$@# I'm better than you all. I can out learn you. I can out think you and I can out philosyphy you. "I am like God and God like me. He is as small as I and I am as large as He. He cannot be above me nor I beneath him be!" Selatious 17th century.
Evan
I do think that soldiers that suffering from PTDS, TBI do deserve to awarded pur ple heart because the truama is cause by war. It does not matter they did not shed no blood but they can not leave theire as normal as other people. I do not think the rules that keep them from getting the purple heart award its not fair to those heroes, its jusj like downside PTSD.
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That is my response , kinda shocked really .. I have recently been assessed as having PTSD .. and feel a bit sad and bewildered by this article ..
I do not have bi-polar disorder, was on my way to my other sites .. as I do have anxiety/depression, MS, Fibromyalgia .. and so Chronic Pain , yada, yada ..
When it was said to me by my therapist , the PTSD, based on events that were recalled from early childhood on through my lifestyle and choices in the years that followed .. I was shocked .. and yet it didn't mean anything to me ...
We, who struggle with any form of mental disorder , just want to feel accepted , by others and ourselves .. we just all want some form of recognition .. society is not really there yet , unless you "show" your illness in some physical shape ..
Like many "hidden" illenesses it can take it's toll on the esteem .. and watching other family members go through undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, or who have bi-polar , makes me wonder .. is it a good thing or not for these soldiers to get recognition .. the question is , will they get the help ??
I teeter on a good thing .. as with the APF , of course the veterans who served this country are in the forefront .. everyday people who get up, go to work or stay home and raise their children are usually overlooked and deemed a burden to this society ..
And yet the APF is a stepping stone .. perhaps for us ..
Then part of me is somewhat disturbed, only perhaps because again the labeling , the disbelief of our MD's out there , or experts .. and the toturous bars that are set for the ordinary .. but again could this be a stepping stone ..
I loved the article, it is these obscure articles that help me to realize how lopsided and dysfunctional our society is .. and that I feel better about my path to a level ofrecovery .. while not easy , it certainly is worth it ..