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| | 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. |  | | 
29-11-2006, 01:49 AM
| | Moderated Member | | Join Date: Nov 2006
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| |  OIF Vet - Taking Lives to Saving Lives
Hello everyone. I'm not real sure this will be a good place for me, but at this point I have to try. I have been looking around at some posts for a few days and decided that it may be a good resource.
A little background: Marine OIF vet. Figured that when I got home, a job where I can save instead of taking lives would be a nice change of pace, so I went to nursing school (yes, men can be nurses) and now work as a trauma nurse in an Emergency Room. Talk about putting stress on top of stress.
Anyway, I'll be lurking around reading. |
29-11-2006, 02:41 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: midwest
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Welcome, I'm glad you said hello. There's several members that are vets and several that are emergency workers here on this board. I hope you can find some info and help here. |
29-11-2006, 03:07 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Memphis, TN
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Welcome to the forum. New here too. Worked at the trauma center for about 4 years. Man did you knock on the right door. Don't worry about confrontations or people judging you. It won't happen here. I fought the war on the home front a little too long. |
29-11-2006, 03:14 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: charles town, wv (usa)
Posts: 1,271
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hey ch, welcome to the forum. this is a good, safe place. lots of real help.
cathy |
29-11-2006, 04:27 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada
Posts: 681
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Welcome to the forum. Hope you stick around. |
30-11-2006, 12:59 PM
|  | Administrative Editor PTSD | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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How you going mate, and glad you joined. I think this is the right place for you mate, because PTSD is PTSD, regardless how you got it. Yes, I am a vet also, but PTSD is the same through us all, it only changes in intensity and quantity of symptoms really at any given moment.
Wow ha... I agree with you about putting yourself in trauma's way. I can see why you have made the move to a nurse, being the taking lives to now saving lives, as it gives some purpose and healing to yourself in order to do good in life. Many with PTSD move into fields like this, not so much nursing or any emergency type work where they are exposed to more trauma, but more jobs and positions where they can help people, regardless what it is, just help and give their own soul some inner peace from the trauma suffered. Its therapeudic, to say the least. I know there are some nurses here with PTSD, and I think you might just get the answers or helpful solutions from experience you need to keep going. |
01-12-2006, 03:17 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 305
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HI Ch, welcome to the forum.
Sorry to hear you have PTSD, but then again, I'm sorry that I have it too... 
You've found a wonderful place, though, as we know the things you're feeling and experiencing, having gone through it ourselves.
Oh, and congrats on going to nursing school. My husband is a nurse and loves it! |
02-12-2006, 08:17 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: canada
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Welcome Ch I hope that you find this a great place to talk with others who have an idea what you are going thru. Nursing is a great career but also a tough one, well done to you. |
02-12-2006, 10:31 PM
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Ch, hi. I'm a vet also, thanks for serving your country it takes something special to do it. Hope your new career is fullfilling. I look forward to chating. Welcom abord. |
06-12-2006, 12:00 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Tampa, Florida
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Hi CH,
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