I've found alot of support as a wife of a soldier who developed PTSD 1 yr after deployment. I've come to understand some of the factors that hinder or help recovery. It's somewhat of a praise report that my husband no longer has the intense symptoms anymore. I'm wondering if others have noticed the same as I have.
After dh retired last month and began his new civilian job, things began to really look up, I noticed a change in him. He said that he thinks it's not having to put that uniform on anymore (more than shorttimers disease/syndrome) and go to a place that looks like, plans for, revolves around the current conflict that contributed/CAUSED this. Putting on a suit and tie each day is like shedding his old skin. I think though about Vietnam vets who never shook it and am wondering if this is just on hiatus for a time, like it would've been for those vets and it's just going to come and bite us in the butt again. I totally trust and thank God for the steps forward. I guess I get a bit gun shy and am one who likes to anticipate the worst so it's no shock when things do happen, you know what I mean?
He wasn't even what someone would think of as your typical ptsd case, and part of it wasn't even IRAQ, that was only perhaps 75% of it, which makes it hard because the 25% of the issues that were a precursor are issues that he had to deal with under duress while getting the unit out the door and dealing with a boatload of junk there.
Anyhow, I'm here if anyone needs to throw a question out, or share an answer to a question I may have posted above. It's just an issue close to my heart, and something that I too have battled along with him, to a lesser degree of course.
After dh retired last month and began his new civilian job, things began to really look up, I noticed a change in him. He said that he thinks it's not having to put that uniform on anymore (more than shorttimers disease/syndrome) and go to a place that looks like, plans for, revolves around the current conflict that contributed/CAUSED this. Putting on a suit and tie each day is like shedding his old skin. I think though about Vietnam vets who never shook it and am wondering if this is just on hiatus for a time, like it would've been for those vets and it's just going to come and bite us in the butt again. I totally trust and thank God for the steps forward. I guess I get a bit gun shy and am one who likes to anticipate the worst so it's no shock when things do happen, you know what I mean?
He wasn't even what someone would think of as your typical ptsd case, and part of it wasn't even IRAQ, that was only perhaps 75% of it, which makes it hard because the 25% of the issues that were a precursor are issues that he had to deal with under duress while getting the unit out the door and dealing with a boatload of junk there.
Anyhow, I'm here if anyone needs to throw a question out, or share an answer to a question I may have posted above. It's just an issue close to my heart, and something that I too have battled along with him, to a lesser degree of course.
