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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #50 on: November 27, 2013, 12:28:31 AM »
It's disappointing how hesitant some lunatic DUmmies are to just end it all.

Most of them sooner or later go the Deadstone route and make the world a better place, but all the deranged drama leading up to it is really irritating and unnecessary.

The exceptions are those DUmmies with a gift for entertainment, like Amber, and DUmmy LocoNuts, and DUmmy Dennis the Menace. Hopefully they'll eventually grow enough balls to do the right thing, but in the meantime they're funnier than a barrel of monkeys.

The worst DUmmies, and the most common, are the drama queens who insist on endless essays about how miserable they are, and how miserable all their friends are, and how miserable the rest of the world is.

The first few paragraphs are funny, but after that they become deadly bores.

Please, DUmmy, no one cares even the slightest bit about how you feel or what happens to you.

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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #51 on: November 27, 2013, 12:36:54 AM »
Because I was trying not to post a ton as you guys are at least temporarily allowing me as a houseguest.  I apologize.

Yes, I have.  I'm sorry if somehow I've offended you by trying to blah blah blah

Knock off the passive-aggressive bullshit. That may work at the DUmp, and you may even get some mileage from it in real life, but not here at the grown-up table.
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #52 on: November 27, 2013, 12:46:33 AM »
Lorelai- reality check.  It's time to stop.

We are strangers to you, and reasonable people do not talk about their mental health problems, medications, or sexual abuse history with strangers. Talk to your doctor, your pastor, your husband/boyfriend/girlfriend, your cat*, or your mother about these things- but not strangers on the Internet.

I know that you share this kind of thing with the drooling morons over at DU, but this isn't DU. There is are several reasons the rest of the world has the low opinion of DUmmies that we do; going into inappropriate detail about your mental health is one of them. Expecting affirmation of it is another.

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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #53 on: November 27, 2013, 08:18:46 AM »
It's disappointing how hesitant some lunatic DUmmies are to just end it all.

Most of them sooner or later go the Deadstone route and make the world a better place, but all the deranged drama leading up to it is really irritating and unnecessary.
Please, DUmmy, no one cares even the slightest bit about how you feel or what happens to you.

You've made your point.  Is there an ignore feature on here, so you can ignore me and not have to see anything, or is there moderator consensus at this point that your forum is not the right place for me?

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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #54 on: November 27, 2013, 08:29:44 AM »
You've made your point.  Is there an ignore feature on here, so you can ignore me and not have to see anything, or is there moderator consensus at this point that your forum is not the right place for me?

Sure there is an ignore feature DUmmie but you gotta use your ginormous brain to figure out how to use it.
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #55 on: November 27, 2013, 08:34:12 AM »
Sure there is an ignore feature DUmmie but you gotta use your ginormous brain to figure out how to use it.

I can take the abuse, it's that GOBUCKS would rather not see my posts.  I guess *they* will have to use their ginormous brain to figure it out, then.

Edit for grammar fail.

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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #56 on: November 27, 2013, 08:40:00 AM »
I can take the abuse, it's that GOBUCKS would rather not see my posts.  I guess *they* will have to use their ginormous brain to figure it out, then.

Edit for grammar fail.

I don't see anything in GOBUCKS post that suggest he'd put you on ignore, in fact that would be counter intuitive.

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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #57 on: November 27, 2013, 08:56:40 AM »
I don't see anything in GOBUCKS post that suggest he'd put you on ignore, in fact that would be counter intuitive.



 
DUmmy lunatics are far more entertaining in their natural environment over in the DUmp loonybin.

Here, they're just sickening.

Just one place indicating he'd rather me not be here, in quoting a post of mine.  That's why I asked if in the interim there was an ignore feature for him to use unless mods agreed that this was not the place for me.  

It's not passive-aggressive BS when I say I realize I'm a houseguest in a Conservative home.  I can say I think I enjoy interacting more with RedStaters simply because they seem to be very skilled at the art of passionate but civil debate.

It seemed, possibly, that those of you who enjoy making moles on DU actually enjoyed trying to interact with Democrats, and wanted to have some constructive debate instead of preaching only to the choir -- which is why I enjoy reading RedState. Of course, there are also the ones who continuously create "dieskinnerdie" accounts, too.... I don't want to think that's anyone from your forum.

Edit to add:  You might appreciate this gem from DU2 I wrote when something pissed me off severely in the 2008 election.  Yes, I went on a full on rant.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6831745&mesg_id=6831745
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #58 on: November 27, 2013, 08:58:38 AM »
I can take the abuse, it's that GOBUCKS would rather not see my posts.  I guess *they* will have to use their ginormous brain to figure it out, then.

Edit for grammar fail.

Did you respond to the wrong post? BigDog was calling you out for sharing too much info. GOBUCKS was just commenting on how DUmpmonkie posts are boring.

Oh... nevermind...
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #59 on: November 27, 2013, 09:06:28 AM »
Look Lorelai, I'll remind you of the same suggestion I've given you prior.

Craft a thread on a subject of your choice and then enjoy the constructive debate.
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #60 on: November 27, 2013, 09:07:03 AM »
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It seemed, possibly, that those of you who enjoy making moles on DU actually enjoyed trying to interact with Democrats, and wanted to have some constructive debate instead of preaching only to the choir -- which is why I enjoy reading RedState. Of course, there are also the ones who continuously create "dieskinnerdie" accounts, too.... I don't want to think that's anyone from your forum.

Um... no... and I will explain why you are wrong.

Firstly, moles on DU are there to keep an eye on the DUmpmonkiez, as they have a nasty NAZI like tendency to ban anyone who does try to hold an honest conversation with them, and (in times of great DUmp crisis) shut the site off to non-members when they feel threatened.

Constructive debate is not allowed at the DUmp. If you doubt this, make up a new membership and start posting any story or comment that isn't far left. You will get attacked by the swarming Monkiez flinging poo and shortly be escorted to teh showers by the DUmp GESTAPO.

As we allow you to post here most freely, the DUmp allows no dessent no outside thought no debate.
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #61 on: November 27, 2013, 09:16:14 AM »
Lorelai- reality check.  It's time to stop.

We are strangers to you, and reasonable people do not talk about their mental health problems, medications, or sexual abuse history with strangers. Talk to your doctor, your pastor, your husband/boyfriend/girlfriend, your cat*, or your mother about these things- but not strangers on the Internet.

I know that you share this kind of thing with the drooling morons over at DU, but this isn't DU. There is are several reasons the rest of the world has the low opinion of DUmmies that we do; going into inappropriate detail about your mental health is one of them. Expecting affirmation of it is another.

*It's OK to talk to your cat. It's not OK to expect it to solve your problems.

While I agree this is not the best place, and I will do my best not to overshare anymore here in the future, I think you're misunderstanding how most mental health treatment programs work.  

Some of the most effective modalities include group therapy with people who have never met and many will never meet again except in therapy/group.  Think about the second word in AA -- "Anonymous".  Not to mention that it's far easier to talk about topics a person may feel shame for to people who do not know them.  alt.suicide.holiday has kept more people alive through being able to talk with others with suicidal thoughts without judgment than the number of college kids they've helped take GoBucks's suggested (hopefully more TIC) solution.

Look Lorelai, I'll remind you of the same suggestion I've given you prior.

Craft a thread on a subject of your choice and then enjoy the constructive debate.

Thank you, EagleKeeper.

Um... no... and I will explain why you are wrong.

Firstly, moles on DU are there to keep an eye on the DUmpmonkiez, as they have a nasty NAZI like tendency to ban anyone who does try to hold an honest conversation with them, and (in times of great DUmp crisis) shut the site off to non-members when they feel threatened.

Constructive debate is not allowed at the DUmp. If you doubt this, make up a new membership and start posting any story or comment that isn't far left. You will get attacked by the swarming Monkiez flinging poo and shortly be escorted to teh showers by the DUmp GESTAPO.

As we allow you to post here most freely, the DUmp allows no dessent no outside thought no debate.

Eh, I was pretty new when I posted that rant about everyone jumping on conspiracy theories about Sarah Palin's apparently miraculous and therefore impossible conception late in life.  I didn't get banned.  ;)  I also started up in primary season in 2008 as a Hillary supporter.

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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #62 on: November 27, 2013, 09:42:39 AM »
Eh, I was pretty new when I posted that rant about everyone jumping on conspiracy theories about Sarah Palin's apparently miraculous and therefore impossible conception late in life.  I didn't get banned.  ;)  I also started up in primary season in 2008 as a Hillary supporter.


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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #63 on: November 27, 2013, 09:45:43 AM »
I don't see anything in GOBUCKS post that suggest he'd put you on ignore, in fact that would be counter intuitive.



Relax sweets GOBUCKS has me on ignore and I am an old lady :-) creeping into old timers disease.    

Now my story about my experience with PTSD.

I at a very young age married a Bubble Head [Submariner] Who I had dated for just a month.  I did so to escape an engagement from another man who was beginning to annoy me with his controlling ways.

We had not done more then some heavy necking and he was  [GASP] still a virgin.  

So we were married and went on our honeymoon and naturally I was very nervous about our first night.

Once in our room the first thing he did was to call his Chief to tell him about our location, then he turned on the bloody TV.      

I went into the bathroom to change into my sexy night gown and when I came out he was sitting up in bed watching the     Wizard of OZ  .

This young handsome man told me this was his favorite movie as a kid and I all dolled up for the night could not get his attention.   Looking back, he was scared shitless of his first encounter.

I had to sit next to him on our wedding night watching a very old movie wondering who would make the first move.

Sadly this experience left me with years of dread when that movie comes on the TV.    

I get all shaky when walking the mall and the film is on their TV's, I freak out when a family member puts this movie on TV.   Brings back the memory of the past and who would make the first move.

PTSD is a horrid condition,  Shell Shock was the term to be used from our Vets returning from war.  You trivialize this condition as I have done in the above post.   Good grief, do you think your experiences were worse then the people that survived Sherman and his march ?

Talk to the Asians that escaped Cambodia and Laos walking 100's of miles to a shelter run by the Canadian and Americans to eventually bring them to safety.

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Were you any kind of Animal you would not last long in the field, you have a big bright V on your forehead that welcomes all to come eat you all up.



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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #64 on: November 27, 2013, 09:53:51 AM »


Sadly this experience left me with years of dread when that movie comes on the TV.    




     That is what is called a funny story tinged with sadness, NOT PTSD.

     Herein lies the problem of the liberal and PTSD: you are happy to contort ANY uncomfortable experience into PTSD, while there are probably millions of people getting on with their daily lives who suffer from PTSD AND DON'T EVEN KNOW IT.

     Good thing your husband didn't give you a Dutch Oven - you'd be in a home by now.
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #65 on: November 27, 2013, 09:56:37 AM »
I'm getting Lorelei and vesta mixed up.
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #66 on: November 27, 2013, 09:57:27 AM »
Relax sweets

Relax yourself :censored: if you call me sweets again I will go out and kill a puppy!
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #67 on: November 27, 2013, 10:20:14 AM »
Relax sweets GOBUCKS has me on ignore and I am an old lady :-) creeping into old timers disease.    


PTSD is a horrid condition,  Shell Shock was the term to be used from our Vets returning from war.  You trivialize this condition as I have done in the above post.   Good grief, do you think your experiences were worse then the people that survived Sherman and his march ?

Talk to the Asians that escaped Cambodia and Laos walking 100's of miles to a shelter run by the Canadian and Americans to eventually bring them to safety.

Thank the good Lord you were born in America, a place where you can be all you can be at any age, race or faith.

Were you any kind of Animal you would not last long in the field, you have a big bright V on your forehead that welcomes all to come eat you all up.


I thought I already answered this, by saying that I already recognize that my experiences were nothing like those who have served in wars, or even as police officers.  And while I hope no one would trivialize the absolute idiocy of an angry drunk with poor trigger finger discipline wanting to go outside and wave a gun at someone he was mad at, most would have been able to handle it far better than I.  At least I did get him to put it down before he broke the law, and my mother finally got my hint and got AWAY from him rather than crowding him trying to take it from him.  All's well that ends well, you'd think.

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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #68 on: November 27, 2013, 11:09:18 AM »
Did you respond to the wrong post? BigDog was calling you out for sharing too much info. GOBUCKS was just commenting on how DUmpmonkie posts are boring.

Oh... nevermind...

Hey, I dropped a bunch of crap that outside those who were there with me I don't easily discuss.  I was pretty reluctant to bring it up for several reasons: 1--didn't want to make it look like a dick-measuring contest (I'd lose, compared to what you and several others have dealt with when you were in uniform) 2--I'm not big on playing the pity-party, 3--in the grand scheme of things, who (besides me and a few other people) really give a shit?

Maybe that's the difference between us and them...PERSPECTIVE.  Like the old movie line, "In a hundred years, who's gonna care?"

What Amber doesn't/can't/won't understand is that TENS OF THOUSANDS of people were affected by that one tornado.  MILLIONS are affected by traumatic events each and every year.  But the vast majority of people aren't exposed to that kind of stress more than once in their lives, if that often, yet most who are cope, regroup, and move on.  Those who cannot do not deserve our scorn but our compassion.  HOWEVER, when using that experience as an excuse or a crutch to not do shit for themselves, there's where my compassion ends.
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #69 on: November 27, 2013, 11:45:54 AM »

Horse. Water. Dumpmonkiez unwilling to see reality...

You're quite right, I was accused of working for the RNC for that one.  I tried to lead them to water. It still took weeks for them to stop talking about it, realizing it really was just making Dems look idiotic.

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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #70 on: November 27, 2013, 11:48:56 AM »
It seems there are some young women who enjoy playing and exploiting the victim/martyr/drama role. I don't know if they are predisposed to it, conditioned to it as a child, or what.

I probably sound a little hard and unsympathetic towards my own gender.  I've never been that way, and I find it immature and irritating.


 









 

 

 
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #71 on: November 27, 2013, 01:39:43 PM »
It seems there are some young women who enjoy playing and exploiting the victim/martyr/drama role. I don't know if they are predisposed to it, conditioned to it as a child, or what.

I probably sound a little hard and unsympathetic towards my own gender.  I've never been that way, and I find it immature and irritating.

Not really, no, you don't.  I lived in Bentonville, working supporting Wal-Mart's servers as a vendor, at the time of the Joplin tornado.  I have absolutely no doubt after listening to the scanners that night that many emergency workers have PTSD from it -- anytime a group of people is coming across 10 dead bodies in an hour (I listened for three, and that was the fewest I counted in that timeframe when they just said "Another one" followed by some variation of a cuss word after.  There was no need for any more information to know what they were talking about than their tone of voice.

I have no idea what Amber saw that night, and wasn't active on DU at that time -- I take many hiatuses.  I don't know if her house was destroyed, or what, and honestly it's not a concern of mine.  I have no money to help anyone out right now, all I can do is pray, and that's free so I'm not feeling like I'm getting ripped off when I light a candle for her along with the others on my prayer list.  All I know is that it was surreal to drive through Joplin even months later when they were still clearing debris and my company went up there to volunteer (after the first day they sent the girls to the tent to sort donations by size and usability, pairing shoes donated in boxes, etc, and had the guys out doing the hard work).  An F5 hitting a major city (for that area, it was bigger than my town) is no laughing matter.  158 people didn't survive to potentially develop PTSD out of the nearly 50,000 residents.

My paternal grandmother was absolutely terrified of thunderstorms after an experience where my dumbass father decided to try to outrun a tornado (I was in preschool thank goodness) in early December of 1982.  Dad talked about it fine, laughing about the "Hallelujah Chorus" when it was in sight behind them and getting closer, and we decided in our family that either God or Jehovah definitely was the right name, because my paternal grandmother was a Jehovah's Witness.  Mom just put us kids in the bathtub with a twin mattress over us every time there was a siren, but thunderstorms themselves didn't scare her.  That one killed at least one person in Arkansas that day, another three were killed Christmas Eve by an F4.

I had a bit of debris pelt me on the shoulder from one that was not on the ground at that time, it hopped right over Wal-Mart's David Glass building.  I was outside stupidly watching for it when my weather radar app showed it was going to be a close approach and went out for a cig at the "wrong" time, one coworker was bitching about everyone calling and taking up all our overnight lines.  I heard the sound for the first time, and RAN inside, and felt a touch of debris, had tree bark on my back but not much.  By the time I got through all the badged doors, the building was shaking.  All I did was get a weather radio for my home, because before when we knew it'd be a close approach I had called my now-ex to tell him what happened, and he was still so sleepy (we both worked odd shifts) that he woke up, went into the living room in front of the picture glass window, and went back to sleep!  Never heard the siren.  I had an app on the iPhone I'm selling now on eBay, too.  My sister and her husband storm-chase and enjoy it.  I wasn't traumatized at all by my experience, just wanting to make sure my partially deaf love at the time wouldn't sleep under the window again.  (We did have to have shingles replaced after -- and if you have an attic fan and they do a shingle replacement in that style of house... hope you have hardwood floors.)

Not everyone reacts the same way to an experience.  If she was not brought up knowing about tornadoes and used to drills and sirens, an F5 probably was very traumatic for her even if her home wasn't destroyed, just seeing the devastation that night even as a civilian.  If she hasn't had access to therapy because of not having a stable place to live, she could still be living in 2011 instead of 2013.  But I don't know her, and haven't kept up with her story.

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But you are correct, there are also many people who compete in their martyrdom/victimhood, instead of choosing to move forward and take steps for their own health.  

I had my intake at least for therapy if not medication maintenance yesterday.  I'll get to go once a week for a reasonable price, and while $80 a month is going to be expensive for my current income, I know the help will be worth it.  I'm applying for every program that's out there that will get my medications paid for.  I'm working from home as I can.  I found a rental situation I could handle.  I know I can always live with my sister if I'm ever that broke, though I still paid her rent when I lived there two months in my transition after I was laid off (2nd out of 4 hospitalizations in 18 months, 2nd of 3 in 12).  Only reason I mention it is that's guideline level from the Listing of Impairments.  (Don't get me started on the people who apply and plan to never work again -- I WANT to work, they have a "ticket to work" program that I'm going to ask for help from as soon as I'm eligible, and I'll be thrilled to be able to work full-time and not miss so much they can't afford to keep me.  People told me to apply before that, I wouldn't until I was sure I'd met a listing *and* been out of work a year already.)

I count my blessings, that all of those things are available to me.  And that I worked and paid in my taxes enough that if I continue to rack up three hospitalizations a year, I won't be on SSI.  That I had enough savings to live for a year and at least keep up with my physical health before really hitting a crunch.  

One of the blessings, though, was being told about Prazosin, and that's why I posted in this thread in the first place.  I was able to take myself off the Klonopin my pdoc had originally prescribed because of it.  It's $4.  It works.  It might even do two things at once if you're mildly hypertensive (the indicated dose is one of the lowest, 1-2 mg).  I look forward to coming off of it when I've worked enough through that particular issue in therapy.  The VA usually does know about it, but not all people are going through the VA.  If one person didn't know about it and it helped them, it was worth the rest of this thread IMHO.

And I'm done.  Because this was bouncier than Dolly Parton running without a bra.

Pardon the edit. ;) and also, my family went to many 12-step programs (Alateen and the original ACA, sometimes spelled ACoA).  We were taught there to speak of your own experiences rather than give advice.  So I tend to "bouncy" rather than give advice or state an opinion/judgment, especially if I'm trying to be diplomatic.
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #72 on: November 27, 2013, 02:34:33 PM »
 :o

Jesus wept! Stop giving vesta a run for her money for long assed rambling post!

I caught the PSTD just from trying to read it.

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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #73 on: November 27, 2013, 02:35:19 PM »
:o

Jesus wept! Stop giving vesta a run for her money for long assed rambling post!

I caught the PSTD just from trying to read it.

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for everyone.

Such a giver.
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Re: Amber reminds us of her PTSD
« Reply #74 on: November 27, 2013, 02:58:44 PM »
Such a giver.


     These Amber threads usually end up as overwrought sausage fests. Jeez. Enough.
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5. IMO

a certain percentage of DU is depressed and has other mental issues.