sisu-
i want you to know that you nor he is alone in all this. i suffer from similar symptoms, maybe not to the same extreme, but similar to what he has been going through. there are days i feel emotionally numb around people and cannot relate at all to what they are saying. and its not that i don't care about them. i just feel like there is a barrier between me and that person. it was really bad when i first got back from OIF1. i felt like i didn't belong where i was. like i was put in some kind of cryogenic chamber for a year and WHAMO!, here is your family back that you feel like you don't even know. and the reason? because i wasn't there. there are also certain "things" that are carried over from being in a combat zone for an extended period of time. but that is a discussion for another time and place. if i can be of further help, please let me know. respectfully, SM