How does the RallyPoint community help those with PTSD?

I live with PTSD everyday of my life. It's hard. I haven't been able to talk to anyone except my therapist about it and that wasn't until I admitted to myself that I did have a problem. I am now on medication. I try to take it everyday but there are days I forget or I just don't because of doubts that it actually helping. I have insomnia, or wake up sweating with bad dreams. I hardly leave my house. I know that I am not the only one who suffers with this. Is, or will there ever be, a true cure? The answer is still to be determined, I guess...

Having PTSD as well as other mental and physical health issues due to combat related experiences, I would say Rally Point has helped me network with other like minded Veterans and Soldiers.

I feel your pain brother.

You can talk about here thru links with the members. They can direct you towards confidental assistence and if they're near you - drinka few beers and hear you out.

For myself it helps that I learn that I am not the only one (obv) but it allows me to talk to someone who has had the same experience as I have. It's easier to talk to my follow brothers & sisters in arms about issues then my friends who will never understand. It's impossible to talk to them with out breaking everything down barney style. Tho i know they mean well trying to help, it is just not the same then someone who shared your experience. 

RallyPoint Team Support for our brothers and sisters navigating their post-traumatic stress, whether it reaches disorder level or not, is one of the most crucial things a military community can do. My kudos for lending support to this worthy endeavor.

I'm just now realizing that lóking at the positive ways in which I see all of us R.P. members are similar and the ways that I can see us as both inclusive and diverse is in keeping with PTSD treatment. Being hateful, disruptive, and divisive are symptoms of PTSD mental illness on an uncontrollabe rampage. Keeping company with such toxicity perpetuates PTSD mental illness.

Night terrors and cold sweats...
Day terrors and heart palpitations...
Reels of black and white silent films running through my mind with constant survivor guilt that steals my breath...
The embarrassment of having to just walk away from an event when that monster starts railing against the confinement of its cage for no damn apparent reason...
I know this and I know that, however...
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I would love to make some of my P.T.S.D. triggers go away with time. Some have, like the ones from being deployed to Operation Desert Shield/Storm. But my more recent triggers are still very hard for me to deal with. I lost my wife in early Jan. 09, she died in my arms because of un-diagnosed health issues that all of her doctors missed. It's still hard to talk about and I still get nightmares from the experience as well as she was also Sexual Assaulted in our back yard when we still lived in Base Housing. I still have a hard time accepting the fact that her assault was not my fault because I didn't wake up in time to stop her from going outside due to her sleep walking. So anyone with help dealing with the above triggers I would really appreciate it. I've been through two different works through the V.A.; but I still can't visit her grave at the National Cemetery on Ft. Richardson, AK.

I HAVE NOT LEARNED MUCH ABOUT PTSD AND I HAVE LEARNED OTHER HELPFULL THERAPY AND I NEED TO APPLY IT TO ME AND IAM LABLED SHCHITZOPHRENIC AND BORDER LINE BIPOLAR AND IF I HAD PTSD I NO LONGER HAVE PTSD