Donate for PTSD Donate - PTSD Forum is quite costly to run, maintain and improve. All donations are appreciated.
New To PTSD Forum FAQ's - All you need to know contained in Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
PTSD Forum Extra's PTSD Forms - PTSD Forum provide a PTSD assessment and self analysis form. PTSD Learning - Contains some PTSD learning information and presentations.
Recommendation  PTSD Forum recommends the use of Firefox Browser with Search Status add-on, plus your countries relevant English dictionary add-on. This enables forum members to spell check and remove typical toolbars from their browser.
| | Notices | Welcome to PTSD Forum. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a life threatening, debilitating disorder that can break down a sufferer’s body through anxiety and stress. Further it poses a significant suicide risk resulting from the brains neurological imbalance and chemical depression. Sufferers often live in denial, thus this community is aimed at helping PTSD sufferers help themselves through others experiences, guidance and education. We are here for the sufferer, spouse and families surrounding PTSD. Spouses and family are too often forgotten in this equation, and often they receive all the worst that PTSD has to offer. If you're involved in any way with PTSD, get registered and help yourself now. Non-active members will eventually be deleted. If you are not a sufferer, carer or someone within the mental health industry, and active, then there is little reason for you to be a member of this forum. Non-active members with zero posts are deleted periodically during the year. |  | | 
28-12-2007, 11:47 AM
| | | | Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 45
| | Well I cheated on my first wife, she made me feel like crap. she never found out.I cheated 2 times that is all. no more. 2 days 2 girls.
I use to work at the Navy yards where they took old stuff to be sold or disposed of. I would take truck loads of tools and sell them at swap-meets yard sales. not stuff they wanted just the stuff they were going to get rid of. Hell I know I have done more but that is at the top of my list. | 
29-12-2007, 06:36 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tallahassee,Fl.....Home of the red neck!
Posts: 161
| | I cursed the ground my most resent ex best friend walks on today.
I lost two good friends to two shitty things. | 
04-04-2008, 11:27 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: USA
Posts: 1,633
| | Did not call my mother on Easter Sunday, nor have allowed myself to do so since. She's been on my mind lately and I have a dilemma. Both:
It feels like a bad idea for me to call her at this time in our lives, and yet I fear it's an even worse idea not to do so.
And,
It's a bad idea not to call my mother, and yet an even worse idea to do so, at this time in our lives.
Basically, I'm afraid of what might be, and my feared, almost predictable, spiritual downward slide that could follow, as well as, a possible MH internal eruption response to speaking with her, having her over here to visit, or visiting her.
My family and I are in the process of many positive changes and the stress that can arise from such huge changes is already enough for me to need to manage.
So despite my justifications in not calling her or talking with her lately, I still feel guilty. | 
12-04-2008, 03:05 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 38
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by anthony I have cheated on girlfriends
I have had multiple girlfriends at once, lieing to each of them
I have beaten people up just because they looked at me when drunk
Not proud of any of the above, but they are part of my past. | anthony,
I used to think it was just a common trend amongst the military community but now that I've been learning more about PTSD, there seems to be a link to risky sexual behaviour and men suffering from PTSD. But the only studies I can find are based on men with childhood sexual abuse backgrounds.
I went through a similar time in my life but it tended to repeat itself. The first time around, I drank a bottle of whiskey a day and slept with any girl I could find. That lasted around 6 months and then some friends that I thought drank to much told me I had a problem, so I stopped. Well I stopped drinking every day. I had 3 different girlfriends at one time, all of them knew about each other and competed for my time. But they never met one and other. I had a long term girlfriend for a few years and when ever I was away, I would cheat on her. | 
03-05-2008, 05:36 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada
Posts: 132
| | I was just listening to Diana Krall singing "The Look of Love" ... I started to sing along, stopped after a phrase or two, and said to myself, "I used to be able to sing like that."
Why don't I now? Because I smoke cigarettes. I have seriously damaged -- perhaps ruined -- my voice. I'm poisoning myself.
My mother smoked heavily while pregnant with me (1958-59); both parents smoked everywhere (including the car -- windows rolled up during winter!!!); all of my sibs smoked -- and all have quit, except me. My mother died of emphysema in 2002.
(Anyone who's been a serious cigarette junkie and stopped for good...how'd you do it? What made the difference? -- Thanks.) | 
03-05-2008, 03:47 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 85
| | I got a pink slip in 3rd grade (can't really remember which grade it really was?)for cheating on a spelling test for the word "coffee" and never told my parents about it. They still have no idea, not that they'de care after this much time, but if they knew then...I dont want to think about what would've happened.
I got alot more.....TBC | 
03-05-2008, 08:57 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 85
| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Linda Taking trains and buses without paying for tickets (in Russia) | LOL!!!!!!  I did that all the time cuz the busses were so damn full and the lady collecting the money and giving the tickets either never got there in time cuz of so many people she couldnt move anywhere or I'de kinda move about avoiding her. Cant avoid paying for the маршрутка though. Oh, except someone I was with one time only had a 500 ruble note and the guy didnt have any change for it, and we got to our destination and just didnt pay. So we kinda caught on, pay with 500 rub note and get ride for free. alot of the time they did have change but sometimes not. or they'de just kick you out, lol!! I love Russia, It's such a great place!
BTW- its amazing how they drive and handle all the money coming towards them and getting all the change back to everyone while driving in those crazy Russian streets, esp in winter.
Last edited by cypher; 03-05-2008 at 09:04 PM.
Reason: I had to mention that I love Russia, its such a crazy place, in the best of ways!!
| 
05-05-2008, 01:25 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 85
| | Once, when I was 7 maybe 8, I had to go to the bathroom soooo bad. I ran to the bathroom and didnt really look, just went. Then I relized the lid (is that what it's called) was down. I did'nt clean it up, I booked it outta there hoping noone would know it was me. It was in a church too, which (in my mind) somehow makes it worse.  | 
05-05-2008, 02:42 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Posts: 18
| | cheated on high school sweethart numerous amounts of times he even takes care of my 2 kids that he didn't father!
i 2 was a stripper and sold cocaine as well as did my product!
drank drank and drank somemore.
tried overdosing on darvacets, recently tried hanging myself! (that's what put me in the pshych ward and got me help)
used, and used people men, and friends.
I am not proud of my past one bit and your damn right if i could go back and know what i know now it would be diffrent but that cant happen. so, i accept it and lord knows i have learned from it, thats really all you can do i belive. and of course guide your children (if any) as best you can . I have the perfecxt example of what not to do in life. | 
09-05-2008, 09:00 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ma
Posts: 2,021
| | I remembered that when my brothers and I were young, we would stand in our porch and encourage the kid next door to eat dirt. She did, we laughed.
As we got older it turned into sexual stuff. Not nice. I am ashamed to even think about it. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | |