Does This Describe Your PTSD?

MAJ Ken Landgren — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:55:46 -0400

When the most sensitive parts of you are broken, you have to change, as nothing exists.

This what I felt when it first hit me.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 14 at 2015 9:46 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:46:40 -0400

You cannot change what you refuse to confront. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together or be rebuilt in a better way. I know it will sound a bit cheesy but it is not about nothing existing but what we make with the parts that fell apart. When we work out a muscle it grows stronger by rebuilding the torn muscle fibers. You do not grow a new muscle you make a broken one better.

Response by COL Charles Williams made Jul 14 at 2015 11:40 PM

COL Charles Williams — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:40:33 -0400

Honestly, no MAJ Ken Landgren it does not. But I understand that every is different.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 15 at 2015 12:38 AM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 00:38:27 -0400

I think when the most sensitive parts of us are broken, we bleed. In the beginning its gushing, a large gapping wound out of control. We feel that if we don't find a way to control the bleeding we're going to bleed to death emotionally and there will be nothing left. Nothing left for us to give to someone else, much less something left to hold on to ourselves. We have to reach for those small shreds that are left, bind them back together and pull ourselves up. It's not for ourselves that we do this, it's for the ones we love.